[Coco] Scanned in manual for OS-9 Assembler

[George Ramsower]

 I've never tried that. Paint Shop saved it as a PNG at 83k.
 Firefox displays it just as well as the GIF. I wonder about other browsers.
George
http://coco.thetinbox.com/Image3.png

From: "Diego Barizo"

> Saving it as an optimized PNG, went down to 85 Kb
>
> Diego
>
>
> George Ramsower wrote:
>> 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/
>>
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