[Elecraft] How to get your own board trace images

[Rick Hampton]

Hi, Ron.

I can understand Wayne's and Eric's desire for "downloadable" on-line manuals, but a)
half a loaf is better than none, and b) 29 MB is still downloadable.  It just takes a
little longer time.  My kids routinely download MUCH larger files for movie
trailers.  It's not desirable, but it is doable

NOW can we have them?  Please?  Pretty Please?

Rick Hampton, WD8KEL
KX1 #358

Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

> You are pointing out one of the issues with that sort of illustration in the
> existing manuals. Bitmaps get huge, and Wayne and Eric have wanted the
> manuals "downloadable" on-line as needed.
>
> A vector diagram would be small, but it not a trivial exercise to create one
> of the traces that everyone could view. In the Elecraft manuals I've worked
> on, a lot of time was spent juggling file size with image quality in the
> photos and other illustrations to keep the image quality high and the file
> size as small as possible. Even so the KX1 manual is nearly 4 megabytes!
>
> I agree that board trace diagrams are an excellent idea, but it's not as
> trivial to implement as it might seem at first.
>
> After all, these are not "Heathkit" manuals that you get printed once with
> the kit, and if you need more information or another copy you send $10 to
> the factory and wait a few weeks...
>
> Ron AC7AC
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Followed on with that idea by scanning the K2 RF board from my newly arrived
>
> K2 kit on my PC scanner. In color with 400dpi and the image cropped to size,
>
> the .bmp file size is about 29Mb for this board. Saved as an uncompressed
> .jpg
> file at about 7.5Mb for each side of the board.
>
> ...
> Regards,
> Bob. G3VVT
>
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