preserving / ressurecting old docs?

From: Bill Bradford <mrbill_at_mrbill.net>
Date: Fri Jun 22 16:21:29 2001

On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 01:43:14PM -0700, healyzh_at_aracnet.com wrote:
> Please don't scan them at such a low resolution! 300dpi works pretty good.
> I'd really recommend going out and buying Adobe Acrobat itself. I bought V5
> and am very happy with it.

100dpi seems to be the best resolution that I've seen for a tradeoff between
readability and file size.

> For an example of what can be done with Adobe Acrobat and an old 300dpi
> scanner you might want to check the following:
> ftp://zane.brouhaha.com/pub/hardware/WQESD.pdf

Looking now.

> Rememeber at 100dpi you're going to be scanning at such a low resolution
> that any prints will be basically worthless.

This is text and line drawings... for finer stuff, I'll use a higher resolution,
of course.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill_at_mrbill.net
Austin, TX
Received on Fri Jun 22 2001 - 16:21:29 BST

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