[R-390] Y2K Reprinting

[Mark Huss]

So what do we want to use for editing interchange. ?

What I got so far;
No Word.
No RTF
NO TIFF!!!

I agree that PDF should be the final format, but not everyone can edit 
PDF. Personally, I would use Microsoft Word (hate it but use it) or Sun 
OpenOffice (like it a LOT better than Word, and it generates PDF, but 
cannot import it) as the working interchange format because most 
processors can convert (though sometimes not well) that. SVG sounds 
great, but I do not currently have anything that edits or outputs that 
format. That PDF995 sounds good, but I did not see anything in the 
description that it handles SVG.

Sounds like the way forward is to have the Program Manager decide on an 
interchange format for text and graphics. Assign sections that need 
updating to various people that have the tools to interchange in the 
selected formats. And the Program Manager assigns it to someone with 
Adobe so they can pull in the edited sections, format them, and output 
the shared files.

So who is the Program Manager?


Tom Norris wrote:
> Many of the manual reprints way back when were fairly poor as well. 
> The last good manuals I've seen were from the mid seventies, after 
> than they apparently no longer printed them as they no longer had nice 
> presentable halftone pics inthem -- but grainy things that looked 
> photocopied and text that was half crooked. None of that was helped by 
> some of the early scanners with fairly lower resolution.
>
> I remember KA4RKT scanned an R390A manual back in the 90's in pdf 
> format and did a pretty good job, though, given what was available. 
> He'd have used the Navy manual if he'd had access.
>
> No TIFF, please. Or Word, for that matter as not all folks may have 
> it. Heck, I didn't on my Mac until this past year.
>
> 73
>
> Tom NU4G
> ex KA4RKT
>
> On Jun 22, 2007, at 12:30 PM, Barry Hauser wrote:
>> .
>>
>> When a few of us started off the Y2K back around the turn of the 
>> century (always wanted to write that ;-), I OCR-ed the entire '86 
>> Navlex manual to start it off. The Navlex manual was apparently 
>> created in some wordprocessing software and set up as a single column 
>> and the text was fairly crisp so it OCR'ed relatively well. (Yes, 
>> many edits were needed.) I included the original B&W line drawings 
>> and photos, mostly as place-holders for Pete Wokoun and Al Tirevold 
>> to work with. Pete recreated both the line drawings (from scratch) 
>> and we shot new photos and he added fresh callouts and annotations. 
>> Al pulled it all together in Acrobat with Adobe's authoring version. 
>> The first version, complete with real (searchable) text, photos 
>> (mostly color) and drawings, was 4.3 MB's. The first (and last) 
>> revision wasn't expanded by much, mostly for corrections, somehow 
>> grew to about 14 or 17 MB's and that seemed to have something to do 
>> with the newer version of Acrobat that Al used to generate it.
>>
>> Regardless, pdf is the format of choice, considering that it's a 
>> standard and is generally very efficient with mixed media -- text as 
>> text and graphics as graphics. It has it's own compression logic.
>>
>> Overall, it would be best if Al could put some time into it again. 
>> Whether or not he can, it should retain the work that was done thus 
>> far and the format should remain pdf. Another consideration with pdf 
>> files -- they seem to be more reliable in downloading. Some formats, 
>> when files are complex, may partially disassemble when downloaded, 
>> such as Word, etc. where the user's own settings may re paginate and 
>> rearrange things when pulled up on the user's computer.
>>
>> Forget about TIFF. We're way past that.
>> Barry
>>>>>
>
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