Fw: Re: [HBR] copies of articles

[Helmut Usbeck]

The quick outline I have for setting up my CDROM was to have all the 
documents in .jpg.  With a little HTML formatting a nice setup could be done.

And most important is that any one with a browser (any graphic browser new or 
older versions would have no problem viewing it.  One thing to keep in mind 
is the end-user.  Quite a few people on this planet still use DOS and many 
amateurs use Linux (like myself).  Properly scanned and setup good images 
should result.  I was thinking of getting Adobe but I used the money to buy 
an Elecraft K2 which I'm putting together now.  Ergo, developement on my 
CDROM has stopped for the time being. 
 
The one item which is important in a machine which you're going to be doing a 
lot of graphics work is buy alot of memory.  512 Meg is a good starting 
point, along with a good graphics card, something like an Nvidia Gforce 2 at 
least.  Speed of the cpu is important but not everything.  I run a 7 year old 
dual processor 200 Mhz Pentium Pro with 1 Gig of Ram and the processing time 
is only a couple of seconds slower than my friends 1.7 Ghz wiz-bang running 
the same programs.

Right now all my images are a hodge-podge of .gif, tiff, jpg, and bmp.  I was 
trying out all of them to see if one was really better than another.  It all 
boils down to how the original scan was done.  

Anyhow I have to get back to soldering up my K2. 
I didn't think there were that many people that would want (or I thought had) 
all this documentation.
So Kees if you want to start a documentation comittee count me in.  (After I 
finish my K2)

Regards, 
Helm.  WB2ADT

  
On Sunday 09 June 2002 14:28, you 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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