[R-390] HSN Status -- and a poll

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

Barry Hauser wrote:

> Hi Bob & List
> 
> Most of the old issues are hard-copy.  Many of the really old ones were
> typewritten, not even word processed, so never existed in digital form.  The
> easiest and most authentic looking result would be had through bit imaged scans
> pulled into pdf or deja-vu files.  However, this limits the compression that
> those file formats allow.  For maximum compactness and highest resolution, the
> old issues would have to be OCR'ed.  That might be necessary to keep bandwidth
> under control, not sure.

This process is exactly what I have been using for the articles and 
projects I am putting on the GB website.

It takes me about an hour to do a 4 to 5 page article with 
photos/diagrams. The file size averages about 100 KB per page, 
although some, with few or no photos, are only about 50 KB as a .PDF.

I would imagine that there are other methods that can make them a bit 
smaller.

Ken Gordon W7EKB