Not quite free, but almost... Photoshop Elements is a limited function
version of Photoshop, and shipped with every Canon camera I bought. Maybe
buy a cheap camera, after ascertaining that it does indeed come with the
freebie software.
The advantage is scripting. I don't believe Elements allows you to create
scripts, but I'm pretty sure it lets you load and run them. I have a few
that I use to help stitch the three artwork images across or vertically.
BTW, PNG is much smaller than TIFF.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Trethan" <stefan_trethan@...>
To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 11:24 AM
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Image editing for printing
> Hi,
>
> this is kind of off topic on topic.
>
> I need a recommendation for a FREE image editing software that i can use
> to copy multiple TIFF images together into one and print them.
> What i wanna do is export all views of a PCB (top/bot/legends) and print
> them on one sheet of paper. I can only get them separately on tiff images.
> So all the software needs to be able to do is copy and paste selection.
>
> I've looked at some, and was badly disappointed. the trial of PSP is SLOW
> like a snail, really, really slow, on a ghz machine. I dug out a old
> version 6, and it goes really fast, but as it is only a trial it won't
> help me more than a month.
>
>
> So, if anyone knows a suitable software, please tell.
>
> I'll go back now to trying to print to scale. I'm pulling my hair out
> here, the software doesn't seem to understand what to scale means. It
> almost makes me ignore the wasted paper and print right out of my PCB
> software again, one by one.
>
> ST
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