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Re: Recovery from PostScript file [message #18576 is a reply to message #18432]

Wed, 12 January 2000 00:00

raouldukey
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Registered: November 1999

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"Liam E. Gumley" <Liam.Gumley@ssec.wisc.edu> wrote:

>
> An indirect method is to scan the printed graph into a high
resolution bitmap,
> and then use a program like QuickTrace to digitize the data points:
> http://servermac.geologie.uni-frankfurt.de/QuickTrace.html
>

I have used similar software on a PC called WinDIG that worked
in the same manner and it worked quite well. I don't have a
URL, but it shouldn't be too difficult to find.

>
> However I think it would be best if you just tell your user that he
blew it, and
> that he should learn to make backups. This will serve him better in
the long run
> than trying to extract data points from plots.

Agreed!

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