[TechAssist] Re: Uploading 10 meg scans to the group archives?
- From: Ed Gaidies <teltek2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 18:44:01 -0400
Gary;
Speaking of scanned items..I found out this weekend that the Mac (OS10) has
PDF program built in as part of the OSX operating system. So when I save
something in PDF format...it can be sent out by e-mail, and anyone that has
a PDF reader can open it. I'm going to mess around with it and send you a
file in a few days, and tell me how it is.
-Ed-
teltek2@sympatico,ca
teltek1@xxxxxxx
"Quality will be remembered....long after price is forgotten"
> From: Gary McCartney <number63@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 17:36:44 -0400
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> Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Uploading 10 meg scans to the group archives?
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> Phil, does the scanning software have a setting for "greyscale" or "8
> bit greyscale" or "256 shades of greyscale" ? I find using the
> greyscale setting makes a better picture of a schematic then "black &
> white". B&W won't give you any grey areas in the lines for your eyes to
> blend in and make the lines look smooth, whereas 256 shades of greyscale
> will leave shades between white and black in the lines, and your eyes
> will blend these shades together and make lines look smooth. A good
> example is the circle around a transistor symbol on a schematic. With
> B&W setting, the circle might look jagged, whereas it will look smoother
> using greyscale.
>
> Using greyscale over B&W will make the file size larger though.
>
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> Gary McCartney
>
> McCartney Electronics
> 7134 Fife Rd, RR 7
> Guelph Ontario Canada N1H 6J4
> Fax: (519)821-1530
> email: number63 (at) inetsonic.com
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> Phil Bader wrote:
>>
>> OK here's what I found: My HP scanner program allows me to scan as a
>> "text" or "B&W Drawing". That greatly reduces the size from 10-15 megs
>> to a smaller 900k or so. Then if I want I can zip that even smaller.I
>> can also convert it to a PDF format instead of zipping it.This also down
>> sizes it greatly.I was using a setting that scanned any color
>> information.This is why the large size.Not necessary for most diagrams.
>> -Phil Bader
>>
>> Phil Bader wrote:
>>>
>>> I sometimes scan sections of schematics, and save it to the hard drive
>>> as an .rtf file (rich text format) as most scanners do. Trouble is just
>>> one page is usually 10 to 15 megs in size.I scanned a Zenith schemo that
>>> needed two pages,one was 11,the other was 13 megs.Text mode!Too large to
>>> send to an email address, or sending to the archives. Is there a better
>>> way that compresses the scans? 2-3 megs would be maximum I think.
>>> -Phil Bader
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