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Ansel - Image Editing Software |
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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
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Solutions: Ansel (made by Logitech, Inc.) is the Windows 3.0 graphics scanning and editing package that ships with Logitech's ScanMan 256. Ansel allows the user to scan black and white images, and gray scale images with 16, 64, or 256 shades of gray at 100, 200, 300, or 400dpi. With the Ansel package, Logitech has added several new export formats, many of which will work with WordPerfect. To export an image from Ansel, the user should select the File menu and then select Save As. This will bring up a dialog box. Ansel can save using six formats: TIFF, TIFF CCITT, TIFF Uncompressed, PCX, BMP, and Encapsulated PostScript (EPS). The format that should be used to export to WordPerfect depends on printer type and whether the image is being scanned in as gray scale or line art. On the Save Document menu, there is a button marked Output Format. Clicking on this button will bring up a screen which allows the user to set the final size, the dpi, and the Grayscale/Dithering/Line Art options for the file. The Dither and Error Diffusion options do not work well with WordPerfect. EPS files give the best results; therefore, customers with Postscript printers should use this format. Ansel does not save a TIFF header with an EPS file, so Ansel EPS images cannot be viewed in WordPerfect. If the user wants the ability to see the image in WordPerfect, they should use TIFF files. EPS is the only format Ansel cannot re-import, so if the customer wants to edit their image later, they must save it in a different format. Gray scale TIFF files also give very good output. For all gray scale images, select Uncompressed TIFF. WP does not support any of the compression formats Ansel uses for gray scale images. WP will import both 16 and 256 shade gray scale images. Black and white (or Line-art) TIFF files from Ansel may be saved using any of the three TIFF formats. The standard TIFF and CCITT TIFF formats produce smaller files than the uncompressed format. One last Ansel format that WP will import is PCX. PCX files may be either black and white, or gray scale. The quality of the PCX files is also very good, although not always as clean as the TIFF files. PCX files are usually the smallest and should be used if disk space is limited. |
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