[Coco] XED Question

[Guillaume Major]

I'm sorry to hear about your wife's condition. I hope she will recover 
promptly.

There is no hurry, we can live the current version. I'll send you a friendly 
reminder in a couple of weeks!

Thanks,
Guillaume


"Gene Heskett" <gheskett at shentel.net> a écrit 
dans le message de news:201702140952.28012.gheskett at shentel.net...
> On Tuesday 14 February 2017 07:54:14 Guillaume Major wrote:
>
>> Hi Gene,
>>
>> thank you for scanning your manual! I can crop the images, make a PDF
>> and upload it to the Color Computer archive if you wish.
>> It would be great If you can scan it again at 300 dpi. The current
>> current resolution is a bit low (75 dpi) and it won't display well in
>> a PDF.
>
> Humm, I don't recall ever scanning anything at 75 dpi. But loading a page
> of the scan that I used to make that tarball, its all 75x75 ppi
> according to debian wheezy's version of gimp.  Usually I do utility
> stuff at 150 & apply jpeg compression to reduce the files size down to
> about 20& of the scan output size, unless I see jpeg artifacts at a
> lessor compression.  Although, looking at the OEM manual, it was
> produced on what looks like a DWP.  With the fancy font wheel used, at
> least 300 dpi should have been used.
>
> One could translate back to text with an OCR utility which would shrink
> the resultant pdf to about 10& or less, but that would also need a trip
> thru an editor to fix the OCR's missfires. That occasional error can be
> reduced considerably by scanning at the maximum resolution the scanner
> can do, which makes a blank page into 200+ megabytes loaded into memory.
>
> My wife is in the shop for rehab after developing an acute need for a new
> hip joint after falling and breaking the OEM issued version a week ago
> yesterday, which they replaced a week ago, so I am somewhat busier than
> usual and won't have time for that until she is home again. So today I
> have to take a big box of chocolates into the body shop, along with a
> slightly smart-assed valentines day card. and do it again Saturday for
> her 77th birthday. :)
>
> Ping me in a couple weeks to refresh my obviously getting poor, short
> term memory.
>
>> Guillaume
>>
>> "Gene Heskett" <gheskett at shentel.net> a écrit
>> dans le message de news:201702140316.53369.gheskett at shentel.net...
>>
>> > On Monday 13 February 2017 22:52:34 Bill Pierce via Coco wrote:
>> >> Ed, Gen has the xed & xword docs on his site. They're in single
>> >> page JPGs but I think it's all there. XWord uses Xed and is just an
>> >> overlay (sorta). Here's the link
>> >>
>> >> http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene/Genes-os9-stf/xword-docs.tar.gz
>> >
>> > Thanks for bailing me out on that. Its been yonks since I put it up
>> > and TBT I had forgotten it. I ought to see if I can find a utility
>> > that could make a pdf out of it, or take it apart at the binder
>> > strip and feed it thru my new scanner which can do duplex via its
>> > built-in ADF. But the jpg's should print at the correct letter sized
>> > paper. I did not have a printer that could do duplex at the time,
>> > but the original was 2 sided. It was also in color, which this is
>> > not. But that applies only to the front cover, the floppy image part
>> > of the cover art was red. NBD.
>> >
>> > Unpack it with tar xzf filename. Or whatever might be the equ on
>> > your os. This is a linux house. No windows allowed on the premises
>> > unless I can see thru them. The x tells tar to extract, the z tells
>> > it to use gunzip to uncompress it, and the f tells tar the filename
>> > is next on the commandline.
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Ed Orbea <ed.orbea at gmail.com>
>> >> To: CoCo (Maltedmedia) Mailing List <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> >> Sent: Mon, Feb 13, 2017 10:31 pm
>> >> Subject: [Coco] XED Question
>> >>
>> >> Does anybody have (or can hint me to) the manual for the XED
>> >> (fromMicrotech Consultants) that was recently uploaded to the Color
>> >> ComputerFile Archive?+----------------+*Ed Orbea*Poulsbo, WA-- Coco
>> >> mailing
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>> >
>> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
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>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
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