Fw: Re: [HBR] copies of articles

[john]

Hi Kees,
 
I'd vote not for a CD (yet)... a quick look though BAMA would show how
much resolution can be lost scanning... many of the schematics there
are just useless. That's not to say that good scans cant be done ,
but it's not quick, and it's not compact. PDF's are the way to go, but
you need Acrobat (and that's not cheap).

If you make the paper copy, I'll make a good digital copy on the big
HP digital copier/scanner at work. It'll take a whole wad of paper
and make it into a PDF "book" with one press of the button. I'd prefer
paper, but I'll certainly help out with the scanning as long as I have the
resources at work to use.   I've got a good scanner here on this box,
but it's slow going on a single sheet flatbed.

73
John wb5oau



At 01:28 PM 6/9/02 -0500, Sandy and Kees Talen wrote:
>Well, that certainly got some responses going. I have a very large
>collection of HBR related material (just like Helmut), all the QST
>articles, and many pages which are not online, but there may be 
>some stuff out there I don't have. 
>
>A CD sounds like a great idea, since you can still print anything
>off the CD. I do have a scanner and CD writer ....what else do I need. 
>This is a small 233Mhz machine without too much memory so the processing
>capability may be slow. Seems like the little HP scanner would be the
>bottleneck. Also PDF files might be nice but I need the software. What
>are some better ways of scanning data ? At least the 
>files could be much higher resolution.
>
>These guys who offer CDs of complete military manuals for ARC/5
>equipment sure had to take some time to do that.
>
>Kees
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