Not sure if this is relevant, but the Xerox S/W that comes with many
scanners likes to read uncompressed TIFFs.
Neil Morrison
email:morrison_at_t-iii.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Erlacher [SMTP:edick_at_idcomm.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 10:41 PM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Re: Intel OS DOC and SOURCE
>
> Well, I like my scanner because it has a sheetfeeder and because it's
> legal
> size, but, alas, it's only capable of a limited range of formats. After
> all, I've had the thing for nearly ten years. Now, if you have a way to
> massage the old style TIFF (targa) files into something better, perhaps
> that
> would be the thing to do.
>
> A lot depends on what requirements the TBD web host will have, and I'll
> perhaps hold off until a site is found.
>
> OTOH, I did sort of allow that since Hans Franke is going to be at the
> VCF,
> though I'm not, I can arrange to get this stuff hauled out there for him
> by
> someone from here who's going. I will have to see whether he's willing to
> get this stuff scanned and appropriately compressed, then made available
> via
> the web.
>
> Wait and see . . .
>
> Dick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Date: Friday, September 17, 1999 6:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Intel OS DOC and SOURCE
>
>
> >"Richard Erlacher" <edick_at_idcomm.com> wrote:
> >> If there were a web site which would accomodate the many thousands of
> pages
> >> involved here I'd consider scanning the stuff and forwarding the
> bitmaps
> to
> >> whoever wants them. Now, keep in mind that a typical TIFF of a printed
> page
> >> in single-bit format is about 1 MB in size, and we're looking at a
> 1-2'-high
> >> stack of paper with both sides printed in most cases. LEt's see. . . a
> ream
> >> is about 1-3/4" = 500 sheets . . . let's say 10 reams . . . so we're
> looking
> >> at 10 GB, right (GAWD! . . . I hope I've miscalculated!)
> >
> >No, for text and line art, just use TIFF Class F Group 4 compression.
> >It's lossless, and for typical pages at 300 DPI it's only about 50K.
> >Intricate pages somtimes wind up around 100K-120K.
> >
> >And although not all software can deal with that format, the Group 4
> >fax compression is one of the native formats for PDF, so I now supply
> >all of my scanned documents as PDF files. For a few examples, see:
> > http://www.36bit.org/dec/
> >
> >Yes, I know that some people hate PDF format, and that you can't read
> >them on a Commodore 64 or PDP-11/05. To which I say, too bad. I got
> >many more complaints about other formats. Some people even wanted text
> >pages in JPEG format, which is just about the worst conceivable format
> >for them, since JPEG is a lossy format designed for continuous tone
> >images.
> >
> >I've hacked a version of the imagepdf program from Thomas Metz's PDFLIB
> >to directly import TIFF Class F Group 4 files into PDF files without
> >decompressing them, so that it's not necessary to buy the $300 Acrobat
> >program from Adobe.
> >
> >Eric
Received on Mon Sep 20 1999 - 13:12:11 BST