9 Mar
1999
9 Mar
'99
2:18 p.m.
The one attractive thing we loose by creating 60meg
PDF files is the
ability to browse pages without downloading the entire thing....
Or am I missing something in Acrobat that will pull pages on demand
from a table of contents?
If you "optimize" the PDF using Acrobat Exchange 3.0 or newer, and your
web server supports HTTP 1.1 byte-serving, and the user has the Acrobat
Reader plug-in for the browser, you do get page-at-a-time browsing.
I've considered writing a CGI script for my server to construct
PDF files of page ranges of documents on-the-fly. But so far I haven't
convinced myself that it's worth the trouble.
What scanner are you using? Your scans look pretty
good.
I'm using an HP ScanJet 3c. Your 4c is the same scanner with different
bundled software). A 6100c is an improved version of the same thing.
But the newer HP scanners (6200c, 6250c) are a step backwards, at least
in terms of the quality of the sheet feeder.
For text and line art, make sure you use the "HP AccuPage" feature
(automatic thresholding). It does a much better job than the fixed
thresholding, or any of the software-based automatic thresholding that
I've found.
Did you do that 500+ page manual by hand or with the
sheet feeder? :-)
The Processor Reference Manual was done by hand. Actually, I guess I
don't have any of the ones I've done with the ADF on the web page yet,
although I've sent some HP calculator-related scans to Dave Hicks for
the next edition of his Museum of HP Calculators CD-ROM set.
I'm slowly working on scanning the entire set of TOPS-10 Software Notebooks.
Right now I have a stock HP Scanjet 4C, but am
considering investing
in a ledger-size scanner with a decent sheet feeder so I can archive
not only my manuals, but my printsets as well.
There are inexpensive scanners with ADF, and there are inexpensive B-size
scanners. But there aren't inexpensive B-size scanners with ADF. :-(
I keep hoping that HP will introduce one. And it would be especially
nice if it was designed for heavy usage, had a high-capacity ADF comparable
to a high-end copier, and a 100-base-T network interface.
Eric