Apple Preview showing lighter blocks where deletions were made
January 29, 2015 7:41 AM Subscribe
Fixing some information in a scanned document. Screen shows a perfect seamless page but when printed the blocks I changed show up lighter.
Is there some way I can fix this?
The background of the scanned documents is probably off-white. If you delete some off-white, you'll end up with pure white (no ink at all) which will be lighter. Alterscape's suggestion might fix this. Alternatively, you'll have to do something fancier like copy some of the background off-white and paste it into the blocks where you've deleted material, or delete all of the background using software like photoshop.
There might be settings in your scanner software to help with this as well (e.g. scan as black/white no grayscale).
posted by alms at 8:16 AM on January 29, 2015
There might be settings in your scanner software to help with this as well (e.g. scan as black/white no grayscale).
posted by alms at 8:16 AM on January 29, 2015
Response by poster: Alterscape you were onto it! I was scanning in black and white but there was another option to scan in text. Worked perfectly. Perfect appearance now that it is printed.
Thank you for the helpful speedy response!
posted by ashtray elvis at 10:07 AM on January 29, 2015
Thank you for the helpful speedy response!
posted by ashtray elvis at 10:07 AM on January 29, 2015
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posted by Alterscape at 7:51 AM on January 29, 2015 [1 favorite]