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[reddragdiva]

• Little Bobby Tables will kick your ass.

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Out for *pint*age and bitchy old queening with pndc last night. Most needed.

Today I bought a 150W universal laptop charger from Craplin. This is £35 this week. I most strongly recommend you get one. Unless you have a Compaq 6710b like I do with the new huge plug. Bother. Though it supplies 24V for redcountess' TiBook very nicely. I'll have to see if the 90W (£35) has the right plug and exchange it.

arkady is all fired up by the drawing tablet and has fished out her old folio to rescan stuff. Since we have a scanner. Has anyone here tried scanning and photostitching artwork that's bigger than A4?

This afternoon and evening I spend time with Liz and wash clothes and pack for a weekend with a bunch of perverts who can't make up their minds in Leicester. Should be fun! I haven't read LiveJournal in several days — please let me know anything urgent.

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[baljemmett.livejournal.com]

Not artwork, no, but the occasional map (of the local-council-planning-department variety, not the I-could-spend-hours-poring-over-these-lovely-cartographical-specimens variety). I don't recall it being a huge pain; the usual 'leave a bit of overlap and try and get it as square as possible' and some fiddling with the PhotoStitch thingy that came with the camera, and it was done. Artwork could well require more patience and care to make sure no shadows creep in at the edge of the scan, etc., but I wouldn't have thought it insurmountable in general.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

Craplin=Maplin?

Has anyone here tried scanning and photostitching artwork that's bigger than A4?

Yes, and it is generally a bad idea. I had just such a discussion about this topic at work today.
It will be so much easier if you find someone with a larger scanner (Kitco? Worldwide print?) or whip up a camera rig. It's not easy. Even subtle variations in the light and shade and make one tear one's hair out if one is being particular. It will depend in the artwork size, and weather you want to cut it, but IME home scanners don't do the business for a4+ work.

[untermensch.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I wonder if Autostitch can do that kinda stuff?

[commlal.livejournal.com]

I wanted to go to Bicon this year to see friends I hadnt seen for ages, and be an outrageous tart. But we are moving and there is much flapping of arms and headless chicken impressions going on in my house.

[reddragdiva]

I know the feeling! I shall continue to be an outrageous tart ;-)

[commlal.livejournal.com]

Damn you and you tarty ways. I would love to run off to Bicon, but I fear my flatmates would bludgeon me to death with cardboard boxes. I'm sure you can make up for my tart quota :D

[octalbunny.livejournal.com]

Or Hugin, which is already in Debian/Ubuntu. In Debian it still needs autopano-sift-c from the Multimedia Archive.