22 Jun
2001
22 Jun
'01
8:59 a.m.
Acrobat is nice but I think it's bloated. It
won't be so much an issue as
computers continue to get bigger/better/faster (mine is a P3 700Mhz, 128MB
RAM, and handles them fine) but bandwidth is still a problem.
Unfortunatly you're correct about the problems with Adobe Acrobat. Though
this partially depends on the software used to create the files. It's a
shame that OCR software isn't more flexable, and cheaper. Acrobat is still
far superior to the Type 4 TIFF's (I think this is the right format) that a
lot of the PDP-8 doc's have been done in.
BTW, that Adobe Acrobat Document I mentioned in the previous post is only
3745Kb and that's for a 106 page document scanned at 300dpi.
Well, we don't need everyone doing this. One or
two handbooks being
destroyed to make a digital archive is fine. The best thing to do is
scour the net for prior work before one proceeds to shred a book for
scanning.
I couldn't agree more, however, the person doing it should ensure that
they're doing a good enough quality that no one else will need to do it
again. Plus doing it in a format such as Adobe Acrobat which can be read with
Open Source tools is also a good thing.
Zane