preserving / ressurecting old docs?

From: healyzh_at_aracnet.com <(healyzh_at_aracnet.com)>
Date: Fri Jun 22 15:59:47 2001

> Acrobat is nice but I think it's bloated. It won't be so much an issue as
> computers continue to get bigger/better/faster (mine is a P3 700Mhz, 128MB
> RAM, and handles them fine) but bandwidth is still a problem.

Unfortunatly you're correct about the problems with Adobe Acrobat. Though
this partially depends on the software used to create the files. It's a
shame that OCR software isn't more flexable, and cheaper. Acrobat is still
far superior to the Type 4 TIFF's (I think this is the right format) that a
lot of the PDP-8 doc's have been done in.

BTW, that Adobe Acrobat Document I mentioned in the previous post is only
3745Kb and that's for a 106 page document scanned at 300dpi.

> Well, we don't need everyone doing this. One or two handbooks being
> destroyed to make a digital archive is fine. The best thing to do is
> scour the net for prior work before one proceeds to shred a book for
> scanning.

I couldn't agree more, however, the person doing it should ensure that
they're doing a good enough quality that no one else will need to do it
again. Plus doing it in a format such as Adobe Acrobat which can be read with
Open Source tools is also a good thing.

                                Zane
Received on Fri Jun 22 2001 - 15:59:47 BST