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Author: Sean Crist (Swarthmore College)
Email: kurisuto at unagi dot cis dot upenn dot edu
Date: 2005-02-11 23:31:57
Subject: Improvements to Zoëga
I used the ImageMagick library to process the images in some of the earlier scanning projects, back in 2000-2001 or so. Apparently, ImageMagick produces TIFF files which a number of image viewers don't display correctly. I've heard that the TIFF specification allows so many degrees of freedom that it's actually pretty difficult to write a viewer which correctly handles every legitimate TIFF file.
Anyway, I cranked the old images for Zoë:ga's dictionary of Old Icelandic thru PhotoShop, since PhotoShop TIFFs seem to have fewer problems; these new versions are now available and replace the old ones. I also added PNG versions of the pages.
A while back, Keith Briggs reported that page b0261 was tilted and that part of the text was missing. I scanned a new version and posted it in TIFF and PNG formats. (Thanks, Keith!)
--Sean