29 Mar
2019
29 Mar
'19
11:18 a.m.
On Mar 29, 2019, at 2:01 PM, ben via cctalk <cctalk
at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I have been trying to read the Dr Dobbs PDF scans and a few other PDF's. They seem to
work only with the NAME BRAND pdf reader. Of course I use the OTHER brand. It would be
nice if when scanning a file THEY used a generic output rather than latest bells and
whistles.Some PDF's seems
to raw bit mapped images that take forever to display. If you can't read
them what is use of archiving them.
Bitsavers works for everybody but they don't have books in general.
Ben.
Perhaps an obvious thing to say, but I'm sure others who have encountered this would
appreciate your efforts if you were to re-scan these things or convert existing scans from
the format you are having difficulty with into a format that is less proprietary.
There are definitely scans out there that would be better if they were made today or even
made with more care. Some things could use re-scanning.
Nevertheless, I appreciate the fairly significant amount of effort that went into scanning
things originally, particularly when scanners were worse, computers were slower, and disk
space was expensive. I am not angry at them for not doing a bunch more work than they
actually already did.