[Test-Equipment] HP 8405A Manual - Schematics -addendum

[Tod -MN]

Nigel:

I have Adobe Acrobat 7.0 which allows me to do the 'tile large pages'
function as you describe. The free Adobe Reader does not seem to provide
that function. There may be other programs, unknown to me, that will
manipulate the .pdf pages in a similar way. 

The reason I mentioned the quick printing services [Kinko's, Insty Print] is
that I believe they use Acrobat and should be able to deal with the large
schematics as special page printing. Like you I usually spread the 11 x 17
across 3 pages. I use 1/2" overlap and either rubber cement or other paper
adhesive to create a fold-out page. 

For people who may be interested in the scanning process itself, I use a
program called VueScan which provides extremely good control of the scanning
from almost every scanner, film or flatbed. It will allow one to scan
successive pages into a pdf file as a single operation. There are several
choices for scanning of documents such as this manual -- gray scale photo,
line art, text and magazine. I used all of these choices depending on which
page I was scanning. 

Reduction of the very large pdf file resulting from a scan of the schematics
using the VueScan photo option was accomplished using Adobe PhotoShop. There
was some loss of information from the waveforms associated with schematics
when that was done. However, the schematic package was reduced from 93 MB to
9.3 MB by doing the PhotoShop reduction.

Sorry if I provided too much detail about the scanning process for this
reflector. 

Tod, K0TO



> Hi Tod
>  
> Many thanks for the schematics section, all now combined into 
> one manual and looking good. 
>  
> Adobe Acrobat, not reader as far as I know, has an option to 
> "tile print"  
> larger pages with a defined overlap between 1 and 2 inches.
> I've used this before and it works well, an 11 x 17 page can 
> be neatly split across three 8.5 x 11 pages in portrait mode 
> and is completely  legible.
>  
> regards
>  
> Nigel
> GM9PZR
>