Re: G08_105 manual

I have to agree that b&w is best for text only pages. Anything that has images should be done w/ greyscale with a lower resolution. Schematics are best handled on a case by case basis. I've seen way too many scans that don't show the level of detail needed even when the source was decent. Of course, some of the original schematics out there are crap and theres nothing you can do about it :) I'm also a little anal about cleaning up the edges to make sure the manuals print nicely and don't look like bad copies. I'm also against having separate tiff files for everything. I'm a big believer in pdf files, although you do need to play with the settings in Acrobat to prevent it from degrading the resolution on the scans when you don't expect it. Just my humble 2¢..

Jon

At 02:47 PM 4/8/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>On Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:37:07 -0500, "Joe Magiera" <joemagiera@ameritech.net>
>wrote:
>
>>I got the G08_105 manual scanned by my friend yesterday. I left him the
>>message to scan it at the highest quality. I didn't consider that would be
>>1200 DPI, and the 13 scanned pages came out to 230mg. A few of the text
>>only pages he scanned at a lower resolution. He made two full sets, one in
>>.PDF format and the other .jpg format (230mg each). I tried zipping the
>>first (cover) page, but it made no different in either the .pdf or .jpg
>>file.
>
>600 DPI is fine, but .JPG pretty much sucks for manuals. To get the best
>compression for manuals, save the images as TIFF's using CCITT FAX 4
>compression. This means B&W only, no gray scales. I believe PDF can use the
>same compression if told to.
>
>>So, is anyone willing to receive 13 (or 26 if you want both formats) large
>>e-mails to reduce the resolution on some pages (I suspect we want to keep
>>the high resolution on the 2 schematics pages), and host it somewhere?
>
>I'll do it if you like, I won't OCR, but I will convert them to TIFF's / PDF's.
>
>I'll write you with a FTP site to download them if you like, but as I typed this
>Martin's Email came in, and I'm more than happy to let him do it!
>
>-Zonn
>
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