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Comment on Vampyre Imaging Library by Marek Mauder

Marek Mauder — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 02:28:24 +0000

Thanks for the report, fixed.

Comment on Vampyre Imaging Library by Geo

Geo — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:19:07 +0000

Hi!
Thank you for the great library!

When compiling newest version from Mercurial with Delphi 7 or XE an error occured in ImagingUtility.pas file at line 1548:
FloatFormatSettings := GetLocaleFormatSettings(1033, FloatFormatSettings);
Seems that there should be:
GetLocaleFormatSettings(1033, FloatFormatSettings);

as GetLocaleFormatSettings() is a procedure, not a function.

Comment on Vampyre Imaging Library by Marek Mauder

Marek Mauder — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:23:44 +0000

Hi, this shouldn’t be hard, added to my todo list
Probably there will be some TIFF specific option that will switch TIFF writer’s mode between overwrite and append.

Comment on Vampyre Imaging Library by Jimmy Robinson

Jimmy Robinson — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:39:55 +0000

Hi,

The Vampyre Imaging Library is great. I have one request. I would like to APPEND a TIFF image to a multipage TIFF file rather than load all the images into a MultiImage and then save to file. Is this possible?

Comment on Shift Right: Delphi vs C by In Delphi SHR is a SHR; « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff

In Delphi SHR is a SHR; « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of Wiert stuff — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:01:46 +0000

[...] I never knew that >> in C was a SAR/SHR depending if the underlying integer type was signed/unsigned. [...]

Comment on Arena and Daggerfall Findings 2011 by David

David — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 01:39:16 +0000

Some of the .CIF files can’t be opened which use an unknown compression mechanism. These are full-frame images, character faces, graphics used in the inventory pages such as overlays and backgrounds.

Can’t wait for Skyrim myself

Comment on Arena and Daggerfall Findings 2011 by Marek Mauder

Marek Mauder — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 01:13:15 +0000

What files that WinArena doesn’t read are you interested in?
I’m mostly interested in graphics and levels/maps so that’s what I’ll be focusing first.
Hopefully, I’ll have time to work on this tool during winter (after I’m finished with Skyrim .

Comment on Arena and Daggerfall Findings 2011 by David

David — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 04:39:41 +0000

I’d love to see a GUI driven tool for handling Arena’s file formats, At the moment there isn’t much apart from WinArena which doesn’t read some of them. ArenaFile can read a few more and has some limited support for converting the images.

Comment on Deskewing Scanned Documents by Kevin Solway

Kevin Solway — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 16:54:31 +0000

Very useful program indeed. Thanks.

Comment on APNG Update by Mo

Mo — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:39:45 +0000

These converter projects are more recent, and they really work well:

http://gif2apng.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/apng2gif/develop

APNG support can also be added to iPhone/iPad project via the AVAnimator library:

http://www.modejong.com/AVAnimator/

Comment on Deskewing Scanned Documents by Dan Holmes

Dan Holmes — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:17:56 +0000

Thank you so much. This is exactly the kind of tool I was looking for!

Comment on Terrain Rendering by Marek Mauder

Marek Mauder — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:18:36 +0000

Thanks! Finally a working link to the original again, I’ll update the links it the article.

Comment on Terrain Rendering by Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:09:30 +0000

My search before arriving on your website gave me
https://computation.llnl.gov/casc/SOAR/SOAR.html
Hope this helps

Comment on Deskewing Scanned Documents by Marek Mauder

Marek Mauder — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:54:34 +0000

I’m glad you like it.
Support fot 1bit TIFFs can be added as I implemented it in Imaging library that is used by Deskew some months ago. What’s the pixel resolution of your scans? It would be easiest to convert to 8b greyscale internally in the program but if your scans are hundreds of megabytes large it would be better to keep it 1bit for deskew operation to preserve memory.
Also which OS you’re using? TIFF is supported by Deskew only in Windows. There’s also 1bit support possible for PNG (which works in every
supported OS).

Comment on Deskewing Scanned Documents by Rainer Haessner

Rainer Haessner — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:24:27 +0000

Great. I was looking for a toll to correct scanned text pages automatically. Even if I align the pages in the scanner very carefully, there remain small mistakes. I assume, the print of the scanned pages already contains these errors. The misalignment is within the range of +/- 0,3 degree.
Until now I made the corrections manually using Photoshop. The results are very good, but the operation is tremendous time consuming.
I found your program and made some tests. In most cases the automatic rotation works perfect. This is even true in the case of bad documents containing recangles as text boxes with angles different from 90 degree. In this case the horizontal lines become rotated in the correct direction which is the best option in such cases (of course true deskewing would be ideal ).
May I have a wish? There are a lot of input/output option. Unfortunately not for my purpose. Due to the very high scan resolution I use 1 bit TIF with 1200 dpi. The tricks is first to convert to PNG greyscale, do the autorotation and reconvert to 1 bit TIF. Otherwise the documents become too large. 1 bit TIF in and 1 bit TIF out would be very nice.

Thanks for this nice tool.

Comment on Deskewing Scanned Documents by Marek Mauder

Marek Mauder — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:42:38 +0000

Basically, yes. Since it’s a quite demanding operation, skew detection is limited only to certain range (-maxangle to +maxangle). Documents are usually skewed only a few degrees so it’s reasonable to limit the max angle to get considerable speed up. If you have some highly skewed scans, you can use the “-a” parameter to widen the detection range.

Comment on Deskewing Scanned Documents by C

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:38:55 +0000

Could you also describe variable “-a angle: Maximal skew angle in degrees (default: 10)”?
Is this the maximum skew by which to rotate the image to its final de-skewed position?

Comment on Deskewing Scanned Documents by Marek Mauder

Marek Mauder — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:31:40 +0000

Not a problem, I’ll update the program when I have some time. Some autocrop feature might be useful too, to remove the “voids” from rotated images directly.

Comment on Deskewing Scanned Documents by C

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 17:39:44 +0000

This is great! Would be nice to have the option of selecting the white color to fill in the “voids” created by the rotation.

Comment on Working in MODULA-2 by Marek Mauder

Marek Mauder — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 19:13:50 +0000

May I ask what kind of application was that? How was the GUI done that it could be build from both Modula and Delphi?

Comment on Ugly Images of Disabled Menu Items in Delphi by David Heffernan

David Heffernan — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:49:30 +0000

I reported this issue to QC: report no. 86879. Another couple of reports of mine are related: 86876 and 89920

Comment on Ugly Images of Disabled Menu Items in Delphi by David Heffernan

David Heffernan — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:46:25 +0000

Many thanks for this. Until now I have been performing my own grey scaling but this is a great improvement. I think that the code can be somewhat simplified though. For my needs at least the following sufficed:

procedure DrawDisabledImage(DC: HDC; ImageList: TCustomImageList; Index, X, Y: Integer);
var
Options: TImageListDrawParams;
begin
ZeroMemory(@Options, SizeOf(Options));
Options.cbSize := SizeOf(Options);
Options.himl := ImageList.Handle;
Options.i := Index;
Options.hdcDst := DC;
Options.x := X;
Options.y := Y;
Options.fState := ILS_SATURATE;
ImageList_DrawIndirect(@Options);
end;

Comment on Working in MODULA-2 by David Heffernan

David Heffernan — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:44:22 +0000

We used to use TopSpeed Modula-2 which was excellent, but they never supported Windows so we had to depart to Delphi. I can still remember the happy days of porting around 200,000 lines of code. We did this using a translator that we wrote ourselves and for many months we were able to build our product in both Modula-2 and Delphi from a sources!

Comment on Working in MODULA-2 by Marek Mauder

Marek Mauder — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:27:13 +0000

Ada support is currently being added to NetBeans IDE, see http://wiki.netbeans.org/Ada.

Comment on Working in MODULA-2 by adaguy

adaguy — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:34:40 +0000

if you want to stay -for good reasons- to a language that is Wirth’s sytle – I suggest to use Ada. There is a free compiler already well integrated into the gcc system. It works very well and is much more powerful than Pascal/M-2/Oberon. I had my own nightmare with several Pascal/M-2/M-3/ and Oberon compilers in the early 90′ies (the best one was Metaware’s Professional Pascal 2.8/i386-full 32 bit these days and definition/implementation files seprate). Ada comes with an inernational standartd and is very portable and clear. Most people I know from the M-2 days arrived at Ada. Critical software is written in Ada!