[Coco] Scanned in manual for OS-9 Assembler

[George Ramsower]

 When I scan documents, I scan at 300 DPI, grey scale, then in Paint Shop, I 
convert it to two color and save it as a GIF.
 An 8.5 X 11 page will save at about 120k file size.

This one came out at 116K

Example: http://coco.thetinbox.com/Image3.gif


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Devries"

> Hi, Fedor,
>
> I always scan in Black & White, *unless* the document has colours which do 
> not scan properly that way. If necessary, I scan in either colour or 
> grayscale, but for just straight text docs, b&w works best.
>
> I think using grayscale does increase the file size significantly.
>
> I have no idea whether Acrobat 6 (which I use) does a better job of 
> compression than version 4, or whether the output of the scanner has some 
> bearing on that.
>
> What I'll do is print one of those docs from your PDF files, and then 
> re-scan that doc, and see if I end up with a significantly smaller doc. 
> I'll let you know the result.
>
> --
> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>
> Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
> the capacity to be his spokesman,
> so that I know how to help the weary.
>
> website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
> my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Fedor Steeman"
>
>> Hi Bob,
>>
>> If you have tips on how I can make my scans more compact, I am interested 
>> to
>> hear about them.
>>
>> I scan using a HP OfficeJet 6310 at 300 dpi grayscale. I also use Acrobat
>> 4.0.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Fedor
>>
>> On 29/03/2008, Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Fedor,
>>>
>>> Can I ask why these files are so large? What DPI are you scanning? I 
>>> have
>>> docs here that I scanned which have many more pages and are way smaller. 
>>> I
>>> scan at 300DPI, and that produces very readable documents. I'm using 
>>> Adobe
>>> Acrobat 6 to scan and make the PDF files, using a CanoScan 5200F 
>>> scanner.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>>>
>>> Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
>>> the capacity to be his spokesman,
>>> so that I know how to help the weary.
>>>
>>> website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
>>> my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Fedor Steeman"
>>> > Now available for the masses at:
>>> > ftp://maltedmedia.com/coco/MANUALS2/TANDY_OS9/OS9ASSEMBLER/
>>> >
>>> > On 28/03/2008, richec <rcrislip at neo.rr.com> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> > I just scanned in part 2 of the manual for OS-9 Assembler. Anyone
>>> >> > interested in that?
>>> >> >
>>> >> Oh I dunno.. ahhhh, lemme seee... ahhhh... YES!!!
>>> >>
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