Bitmap Rotation

I am trying to rotate hi-res monochrome bitmap files.

In Photoshop 6.0 I have to convert first to Grayscale. Then rotate. However, this creates a lot of greyscale pixels. When I convert back to bitmap using 50% threshold the image looks very bad.

In fact if I do this I do not get the same image as before: BMP -> GYSCALE -> Rotate 45 CW -> BMP -> GYSCALE -> Rotate 45 CCW -> BMP

Is there a way around this?

Thank you.

I think all you can do is up the contrast and sharpen edges then convert back to Bitmap mode. Some loss of detail is inevitable. You should be using Illustrator for Bitmap.

J

"JWSM" wrote in message

[...] You should be using Illustrator for Bitmap.

Now that's just plain wrong.