[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: Rainbow magazines wanted for scanning

Kish Tailor kishtailor at lavabit.com
Sun May 17 12:30:46 EDT 2009


It's only deleted from rapidshare if you are using their free service.

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On 17 May 2009, at 08:12, "jasonb1963" <jasonb1963 at yahoo.com> wrote:


> Dez,

>

> It's great that the magazines are available in so many different

> formats. Rapidshare is great for downloading current stuff, but

> don't they remove stuff from their servers if it isn't downloaded

> regularly (like at least once every 30 days)?

>

> 100DPI PDFs should be approximately 9 times smaller than 300DPI PDFs

> (although practically probably slightly less because the compression

> will likely be more efficient at the higher resolutions). This

> should be sufficient for viewing on the screen (except perhaps for

> very small text).

>

> One thing I don't know if you're aware of is that the DJVU format

> holds the images at 300DPI and still manages to compress them much

> more than equivalent resolution PDF documents due to the more

> advanced compression used. This makes it great for document

> archival purposes. Why don't I convert one of your 300DPI scans

> into DJVU format and upload it to excalibur? I suspect that it will

> look better than a 100DPI PDF and be smaller still, but the proof is

> in the pudding.

>

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