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Pavel Ferenc
Jan 18, 2006
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Hi,
i am wondering if there is a piece of software that can capture an image that is much larger than a screen can hold, typically a map, i.e. an application that can allow scrolling the picture while capturing it. I use french software called Carto explorer that has its own format for the maps. I found a few utilities that can convert automatically these files (.byo) into .bmp’s, but I am not able to get it work. I am not sure about the size, but I think the dimension of thus obtained pictures would be around 10.000 * 10.000px -isn’t this too much for my computer (2400MHz) to handle?
thanks for any help
Pavel
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Jan 18, 2006
"Pavel Ferenc" wrote in message
Hi,
i am wondering if there is a piece of software that can capture an image that is much larger than a screen can hold, typically a map,

I’m not sure this is what you want:
http://elearning.winona.edu/ald1/road%5Ftrip/big_map/default .htm

Is that what you mean?
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Mike Russell
Jan 19, 2006
"Pavel Ferenc" wrote in message
Hi,
i am wondering if there is a piece of software that can capture an image that is much larger than a screen can hold, typically a map, i.e. an application that can allow scrolling the picture while capturing it. I use french software called Carto explorer that has its own format for the maps. I found a few utilities that can convert automatically these files (.byo) into .bmp’s, but I am not able to get it work. I am not sure about the size, but I think the dimension of thus obtained pictures would be around 10.000 * 10.000px -isn’t this too much for my computer (2400MHz) to handle?

Hi Pavel,

This is not exactly what you describe, but you can build a large image from many scans of a smaller one.

Photoshop CS and CS2 will handle 32.000 pixel square images, and you can use a technique called mosaicing to build large images from many small ones.

Your computer is more than fast enough. I’d suggest you install 2 gigs of memory.
—

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
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Jan 19, 2006
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Hi,
i am wondering if there is a piece of software that can capture an image that is much larger than a screen can hold, typically a map, i.e. an application that can allow scrolling the picture while capturing it. I use french software called Carto explorer that has its own format for the maps. I found a few utilities that can convert automatically these files (.byo) into .bmp’s, but I am not able to get it work. I am not sure about the size, but I think the dimension of thus obtained pictures would be around 10.000 * 10.000px -isn’t this too much for my computer (2400MHz) to handle?
thanks for any help
Pavel

Pavel,

If the suggestions, so far, don’t yield what you want, I’d suggest out-putting your .byo to a printed form, then have it scanned by a blue-print house. Several companies offer large format scanners for that purpose and blue-print /mapping houses usually have one, or know where one is.

Good luck,
Hunt

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