[sdiy] Original ARP Service Manuals

[Andre Majorel]

On 2009-01-12 10:52 -0800, Dave Manley wrote:

> What is the best way to merge several scans of a large schematic
> into a  single composite file?  I've used some panoramic image
> stitching  software in the past, but it was tedious, and there
> must be an easier way.

You can do it with a general purpose bitmap editor like Gimp but
it's fiddly. Once, it got me so frustrated that I made a shell
script calling pnmcut and pnmcat and repeatedly adjusted the
numbers and re-ran the script the script until it was right.

A specialised tool is needed. Load several images, zoom on where
the edges meet and let you adjust interactively each image's x-
and y-offset. There's none that I know of. I've been on the edge
of writing one a few times, but so far, laziness has won.

-- 
André Majorel <URL:http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/>