Disk Drive Documents - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Jun 1999

Several of these documents have very detailed graphics (line-art, mostly)
which may or may not scan well.  I would not like to have to re-create the
exploded view assembly drawings.  Though I have a scanner and some really
quite excellent OCR software, I've never been able to deal well with highly
detailed line art.  The typical FAX scanner at 100x100 pixels per inch would
not render these drawings in any useable form.  Even at 200x100, which is
the best I've ever gotten from a FAX.

Emanuel Stiebler has offered to handle this with tools he has in house.
I'll see what he and I  can work up, as he and I live in the same geographic
area.

Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: Innfogra(a)aol.com &lt;Innfogra(a)aol.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Sunday, June 06, 1999 1:48 AM
Subject: Re: Disk Drive Documents

...

  If this stuff is worth preserving, perhaps
there's a way to save scanned
  images for eventual conversion to PDF.  Does anyone know about this? 
They are definitely worth saving. Many people don't have access to these.

Fax the pages to your computer with a regular fax machine. The full version
of Acrobat will convert many fax images to PDF. I know there are several
other programs that will convert too, but I am not sure of their names. I
have an old DOS program called Hijaak Pro that converted between many vector,
...
 raster and fax file formats. I looked and it is a
pre-PDF program.
Paxton 