Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!milton!sumax!quick!thebes!happym!Irving_Wolfe@happym.wa.com From: Irving_Wolfe@happym.wa.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Using Scanned Photo in NextMail Message-ID: <2701@happym.WA.COM> Date: 11 Mar 91 03:03:26 GMT References: <2686@happym.wa.com> Sender: irv@happym.WA.COM Reply-To: Irving_Wolfe@happym.wa.com Organization: Happy Man Corp., Vashon Island Lines: 30 In <2686@happym.wa.com> Irving_Wolfe@happym.wa.com writes: >I have a bunch of scanned-in photos of people I get mail from, but when I >put them as user.tiff files in the appropriate place, all I see on mail from >user is the lower left corner of his picture because it is too big. I have received a response (from Varun Mitroo ) that solved the problem; here it is for other interested parties. I know they exist, since some have inquired. Begin forwarded message: Use Scene. Load in the tiff, and go to the data panel (I assume you have 2.0 software). Click on the Image->PS button to convert it to Encapsulated PostScript. Now you can directly control the x and y scaling of the picture. Say your image is 200x180. You need to convert it to 64x64. Change the percent size of the image in the data panel accordingly (64/200 * 100) and (64/180 * 100). Note that this will change the aspect ratio of your image. If you want to keep the aspect ratio, you may want to "grab" a square portion of the image first. (End of forwarded message) I was able to accomplish the conversion pretty much as Varun Mitroo described, except that he left the final step too vague -- clicking again on the button that said Image->PS before but that now said PS->Image to get back to a tiff file from eps. I was surprised at the difference (a _big_ loss) going to 2 bits from 8 made.