Jules Richardson wrote:
scanning; give it five years and I'll probably be
advocating
full-colour scans :-)
The RSX & RT-11 manuals I scanned had various pages with colour -
for RSX-11M & RSX-11MPLUS it matters because various sections
only apply under certain conditions and colour is used to
indicate that. So there's B&W, red text, blue text, pink
background, grey background and probably blue background too.
I scanned the entire manual in B&W on one scanner and then passed
the colour pages through a colour scanner: 600dpi @ 24-bit colour.
I know I should be able to get those pages down to a few 100KB
each but currently they're all still 24MB or so. I'm guessing
a decade before you'll be advocating full colour scans - which
is probably how long it will take me to find some way of filtering,
compressing and layering the scans to produce something
reasonable :-)
Antonio