[Ham-Computers] Rotating An Image

Fri, 12 Apr 2002 03:14:28 -0400

Use a graphics program, there are many of them. Even the free package that came with
my cannon printer in 1997 would easily and prorerly ratate, chagne, resize and
change file type when saving. \\

the software was called Canon creative and it came with a Canon BJC4100 (see
www.wherever.printers/antique/steam_powered

"Duane Fischer, W8DBF" wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> I scanned a photo and then needed to rotate it 90 degrees left, or
> counterclockwise. It was a .bmp at 150 pi. I selected .jpg and 100% compression.
> I saved it to my zip drive. About 1.2 meg.
>
> I loaded MS Imaging, loaded the .jpg and then rotated the image 90 degrees left.
> Looked fine. Under the 'file' menu, the only option to save was 'save as'. I
> wrote: d:my-car.jpg and pressed enter.
>
> The image was now 170K, not 1.2 meg. I loaded it into MS Imaging, it was fine.
>
> I tried to print it and got a page full of black ink lines. I sent it to my
> daughter to check, she got a red X and could not open it.
>
> What went wrong here? Something must have happened after the image was rotated
> and saved, but what?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Duane W8DBF
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