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[Digital BW] Re: What was the program?

2005-12-24 by scott_now_coming

Do you happen to know what interpolation SizeFixer uses?

I could find it on their website.

Thanks,
Scott

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Peter Marshall 
<petermarshall@c...> wrote:
>
> QImage can - and the help tells you how. And yes, I think it 
usually if 
> not always does a better job than GF.
> 
> The problem with any proprietary software such as that behind GF is 
that 
> it may not get developed. Expectations - and competing products - 
have 
> moved on since it came out.
> 
> However, my simple preliminary tests have shown that SizeFixer is 
better 
> still, certainly where you are looking at extreme upsizing.
> http://www.fixerlabs.com/New_Website/pages/reviews_quotes.htm has 
some 
> links to reviews of this and related products. The problems I have 
with it:
> it runs on Windows XP and I'm still mainly working on W2000;
> it is very slow (20 minutes for the last image I did - resized from 
600 
> to 5164 pixels wide!);
> it doesn't incorporate batching.
> perhaps expensive for the amount of use I have for this kind of 
software.
> 
> But it does do the impossible better than anything I've yet tried. 
> Glowing reviews as you will find if you look at the link above, 
from 
> MacWorld, BJP etc
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter Marshall
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> Igor Wesdorp wrote:
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> >Can Qimage also just resize an image and then save it for later use
> >(like with Genuine Fractals). Or is the resizing only done 
internally
> >when sending a file to the printer?
> >
> >And if it can, does it do a better job then Genuine Fractals?
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