prj@pm-winken.lcs.mit.edu (Paul R. Johnson) (04/17/91)
Does anyone have recommendations on the best program to use for editing black and white scans? I'm involved in a project to scan and edit some early music publications and want to get the best software for the job. We'll need to be able to easily delete pixels (to clean the scan), edit pixels (to clean up notes, etc.), add lines (to extend barlines, etc.), stretch bitmaps (to extend scanned slurs for example), and, possibly, rotate bitmaps (to align bitmaps from two different scans). Other features like being able to access multiple bitmaps at the same time, smoothing of pixel images, etc. are also of intereset. Note that I'm ONLY interested in B&W (not color, not greyscale) performance. The two likely programs I've looked at are SuperPaint and Canvas. SuperPaint allows you to enter bitmap editing mode, but it seems slow and lacks editing freatures. Canvas seems much better, but I've not figured out if it can stretch bitmaps or rotate at a finer control than 1degree intervals. TIA. ---Paul Johnson