On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:44:16 +0200
Holger Veit <holger.veit at ais.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
Somewhere my last posting didn't find its way to
the list, although
there were some downloads of the files below.
Retry (with few typo corrections)::
Hi,
for quite some time I have some magazines of COMPUTE ("Club Of
Microprocessor Programmers, Users and Technical Experts"), a newsletter
sponsored by National Semiconductor, lying around which I consider
worthwhile to be conserved for the past. The date I am talking about is
around 1975..1977.
Some questions:
1. I have only some issues, namely V2N7...V2N12, V3N4...V3N7. Does
anyone have other issues (and is willing to scan or copy those)? I'd be
very interested in this epoch.
2. Scanning: You find a sample issue at
http://www.ais.fraunhofer.de/~veit/v2n7.pdf (2MB). This was scanned B&W
400dpi, stored as TIF and converted with Acrobat. My problem is that
even with this some listing pages are barely readable, see page 5 for
example. This is probably because of lack of contrast; the magazine is
printed on light brown paper with dark brown text; other issues use blue
or green text color which is probably even less readable in a scan. If
one scans in color with 600dpi (as in sample
http://www.ais.fraunhofer.de/~veit/3x.pdf, 2MB) this will result in much
larger files - the raw TIF is 95MB on my disk, which is not a diskspace
issue for me, but for downloaders; expect a single issue to be 40MB and
more in size.
Do the "professional scanners" here, like Al, have a recommendation for
resolving this?
I am far from 'professional' but I always scan with grayscale and then use a good
image editor (I like Micrographx Picture Publisher) that has filters to establish a
threshold. That way I have a static image to work with. When it's done it gets saved
(for distribution) as one-bit and I often archive the original grayscale scans, which are
too big to distribute. The big chunk eraser tool is good for cleaning up the stray pixels
once it's a one-bit image.