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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:

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?

It’s not the processor speed, it’s the computer memory that may be the problem. 10,000 x 10,000 pixels is 229 MB, so you do need a lot of RAM to get such a program to work.

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adykes
Jan 18, 2006
In article <1h9dmu9.17a1u0n1ih3l66N%>,
Johan W. Elzenga wrote:
Pavel Ferenc wrote:

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?

It’s not the processor speed, it’s the computer memory that may be the problem. 10,000 x 10,000 pixels is 229 MB, so you do need a lot of RAM to get such a program to work.

It doesn’t have to be in memory, you can load it as the user scrolls and even anticipate which block is next.

If you allow soom in/out you actually have two or more copies of the map, one at each resolution.

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nomail
Jan 18, 2006
Al Dykes wrote:

In article <1h9dmu9.17a1u0n1ih3l66N%>,
Johan W. Elzenga wrote:
Pavel Ferenc wrote:

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?

It’s not the processor speed, it’s the computer memory that may be the problem. 10,000 x 10,000 pixels is 229 MB, so you do need a lot of RAM to get such a program to work.

It doesn’t have to be in memory, you can load it as the user scrolls and even anticipate which block is next.

If you allow soom in/out you actually have two or more copies of the map, one at each resolution.

Sure you can. But as we do not even know what program the OP is talking about, we don’t know if that’s the way it works, don’t we?

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