Homebrew PCBs

On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 18:29:44 -0000, mikezcnc <eemikez@...> wrote:

> Done. What program are you using to resize the images?
>
> Mike


http://www.irfanview.com/
is freeware (non commercial use).

in "save as" choose jpg and if you want to change the compression there is 
the options button.

jpg is good for photos (with many colors and irregular shapes)

gif is good for line-art (like black/white pcb layout)

this is due to the compression algorithms.

don't use jpg for line art and don't use gif for photos - try it, you will 
see why.


irfanview is also cool for scanning. there is crop selection and also stuff 
like resize/resample.
It's just not made for drawing so you won't find a paintbrush in there.
(and it's a very good image viewer which knows any image format you can 
imagine)


Stefan