On Saturday 30 May 2009 01:01, Chuck Hast wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:53 AM, Aaron Steimle <asteimle@washpat.com> wrote:
> > KFaxView, unless the tiffs or not standard, then you may have to convert:
>
> Tried KFaxView, no joy... Have to keep going....
>
> OK, well I see that I opened a can... The drawings are done I believe in
> Autocad. On the company M$ box I use either the M$ viewer which does
> or does not see the pages... Or I use the company "official" viewer
> something called Fastlook Plus by Kamel Software in Winter Park, FL
>
> They start out as .dwg files and after the run them through something
> does the conversion, they end up with the tiff files. I was asked if Gimp
> would open them, indeed it does, but takes forever, and there are times
> that I just need to pop open a file look at it and close it up, with the
> speed that Gimp opens them I would be way behind on work on those days
> when I have to open machine drawings several times a day.
>
> I will try to find out what they do the conversion with, I just realized
> that the person who knows how is very interested in Linux, indeed I work on
> several projects with him and he has seen my linux machines and at the same
> time suffered multiple sessions of grief with Bill's product and I am sure
> would be happy to tell me what the conversion tool is.
>
>
I was browsing thru the Synaptic Package Manager for the newer Simply Mepis
today and saw Imview which can handle multi part Tiffs and other things.
I saw converters for medical images for things I never heard of.
There are a lot of things in the depositories to look thru.
Richard Smoot
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