Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:48642 comp.sys.mac.hardware:1643 comp.lang.postscript:4140 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bu.edu!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!isle From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: AppleScan Message-ID: <19421@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 14 Feb 90 20:09:31 GMT References: <1990Feb13.233627.16665@phri.nyu.edu> <16151@well.sf.ca.us> Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Followup-To: comp.sys.mac Organization: Computer Resource Center, Dartmouth College Lines: 24 In article <16151@well.sf.ca.us> Jef Poskanzer writes: >Yes. It's almost always better to use the grayscale scanning option >in AppleScan. If you're going to send the result to a printer, then >as you point out PostScript can do a better job of halftoning than >AppleScan can. And even if you want a bitmap for screen display, >any of the freely-available bitmap manipulation programs will also >do a better job of halftoning than AppleScan. For instance, my >PBMPLUS package does zig-zag Floyd-Steinberg error diffusion that >makes AppleScan's dithering look sick. What I'd like to know is why Apple hasn't released a new version of AppleScan which allows you to print a grayscale scan to the LaserWriter -- especially since LaserWriter 6.0 has color/grayscale printing options. Ken -- Ken Hancock '90 | DISCLAIMER: I'm graduating and looking for Consultant | a job, so I'll stand by my words. Computer Resource Center |============================================== Dartmouth College | EMAIL: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu