[Coco] reducing size of scanned magazines

[Leonard Miller]

Hi Aaron, I just went to maltedmedia to find the files you uploaded.  I
found 17 scans  there.  Are these the files you uploaded?  I'm asking
because sometimes people upload things but they don't show up for awhile and
I thought maybe these were scans done by other people.  I appreciate you
taking the time to do this.  Thank you!!

-Leonard


-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Aaron Wolfe
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 05:19 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] reducing size of scanned magazines

I've uploaded the first 12 issues to maltedmedia.  Compared to the
high res scans they are about 10% of the size, but just as readable if
not better.  The ClearScan does a nice job, especially if you want to
be able to zoom in and out without losing clarity on the fonts.  It
turns the letters into sort of quasi vector things instead of bitmaps.
  I've also tried to reduce the bleed through in the background and
other tweaks where they seemed to help.
I am working my way through year 2 now.
-Aaron


On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Ben Jimenez<ben_jimenez at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to read them, keep em coming.
>
> Ben
>
> --- On Tue, 8/11/09, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Coco] reducing size of scanned magazines
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2009, 8:38 PM
>
> I've been experimenting with the magazine scans on maltedmedia.  Playing
> around with settings in Acrobat, I've managed to get the file sizes down
> drastically without losing readability.  For example, the original April
85
> Rainbow is 550MB. I have it down to 38MB and actually more readable than
the
> original scan by turning the time yellowed paper background back to
pristine
> white.  The Jan 85 issue of HotCoco went from 153MB  to 8MB and still very
> readable.
> Obviously it's important to preserve the highest quality scans for
> historical reasons, but for daily use/reading I'd much rather save the
> space.
> Would anyone else be interested in these?  I could upload to malted, might
> save a lot of downloading time for the next guy.  I plan to shrink at
least
> all the Rainbows and HotCoco's.
> -Aaron
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