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« on: December 31, 2002, 04:31:57 am » |
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Mark,
How about putting all the newsletters up on the site. Like you scan Pat's schedule.
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« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2002, 10:33:11 am » |
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But that would be work.
And when I did that first one, I didn't realize the file size would end up so large. I'd need to figure out a better way of doing it. Ideas anyone?
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« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2002, 12:33:15 pm » |
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Doing them in grayscale instead of color would help a lot - since the only thing that's in color (to my knowledge) is the paper, I don't think it would really be a big deal.
As far as file type, I'd say medium quality JPEG would probably be the way to go.
I could tinker with some things, but I don't know how you'd get me the original scans short of sending a CD-R in the mail. Encoding images like that to be a decent size is somewhere between being an art and a science.
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« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2002, 03:17:14 pm » |
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Doing them in grayscale instead of color would help a lot - since the only thing that's in color (to my knowledge) is the paper, I don't think it would really be a big deal.
As far as file type, I'd say medium quality JPEG would probably be the way to go.
I could tinker with some things, but I don't know how you'd get me the original scans short of sending a CD-R in the mail. Encoding images like that to be a decent size is somewhere between being an art and a science.
I think it is fine as it is, I d/l the Pdf file and was impressed with the reading. do it as is, as was. Goood, good. good! |
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« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2003, 06:25:54 am » |
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I think it is fine as it is, I d/l the Pdf file and was impressed with the reading. do it as is, as was. Goood, good. good! The problem is (which Mark Already addressed) that the file is simply too large. Even on a broadband connection it can take a while to download. Putting them in the right format would make things load a lot faster. |
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« Reply #5 on: January 02, 2003, 04:43:28 am » |
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Not to be critical but the text is kinda hard to read as well. I would think you could get a higher resolution gray-scale (or maybe even b/w) gif for a much smaller size. I would suggest gif over jpg since it's mostly text and text doesn't do well in jpg.
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« Reply #6 on: January 02, 2003, 06:37:21 am » |
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Not to be critical but the text is kinda hard to read as well. ?I would think you could get a higher resolution gray-scale (or maybe even b/w) gif for a much smaller size. ?I would suggest gif over jpg since it's mostly text and text doesn't do well in jpg.
It kind of depends on what exactly you're working with, how good you want it to look coming out, and how big you want things. In certain situations gifs can work better, while in others jpegs will be tops. I'd say in *general*, gif works better than jpeg if you've got something clean to work with - ie, something you've generated, rather than scanned in. jpeg generally works a bit better with something not quite so contrasty, ie, a scan. |
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« Reply #7 on: January 02, 2003, 06:53:35 am » |
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Looks like Billy was right in this case - I did some tinkering, and GIF would seem to be the way to go for this type of thing. Here's the first page. Obviously my source was just Mark's PDF - with a new scan from scratch it would look quite a bit better, yet it probably wouldn't much larger, if any.  The file size is about 27k. I'd guess the whole newsletter would come to around 250k or so, compared to the 1.5 MB the PDF is now. |
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« Reply #8 on: January 02, 2003, 10:51:43 am » |
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Looks like Billy was right in this case... Hey Mark, look I was right about something. There goes your theory of me being an idiot.  |
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« Reply #9 on: January 02, 2003, 11:02:24 am » |
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Unfortunately on first load, this page froze my computer more than todays snow did. I suggest a link or perhaps thumbnail on the next post of a sample...
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« Reply #10 on: January 02, 2003, 12:31:50 pm » |
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The image caused your computer to freeze?
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« Reply #11 on: January 02, 2003, 01:23:41 pm » |
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Why yes, Yes it did. But seems to be ok now. Perhaps the image is trapped in Cache.
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« Reply #12 on: January 02, 2003, 01:38:29 pm » |
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A thought might be to make a pdf from the original file. I have the actual Acrobat program that you can make from any Word, Works, Publisher, etc type of file. (and am willing to share) The only thing that might lack then is Pat's signature or anything post on post-making on the computer. That would be the reason then to get the actual copy rather than the one posted on this web site.
But then again, I don't know how the newsletter is produced, so I don't know if that would work...also, it wouldn't do much good for old newletters.
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