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    Hi Bill - a year and a half late, but I just got a Transet this week and I've scanned the manual and quick-ref card. The scan is not up to the quality of my usual work, as I tried a new technique using a DSLR instead of a scanner, so I wouldn't have to take the manual apart. The results are good enough to read, but that's about it. I'll re-do it again someday with the proper tools. Here's the link:




    I have two manuals for the config software (alas only the Mac version of the software itself), which I'll try to do soon. I'll image the Mac disk as well. If anyone has the PC version of the software, I'd love it have it.

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    Hmm, thanks for letting me know. It displays normally for me in Acrobat, but that is all I have handy for testing. Page size issues like that are usually the result of bad/missing DPI info in the imported TIFF files. I scanned those pages at 300dpi and the TIFF should retain that info. In the case of the re-scan I was give earlier in this thread, I had to re-save the JPG as TIFF and force the DPI setting to avoid that sizing problem. Why the other pages are doing that, I'm not sure.

     

    I did edit quite a few pages (for skew, brightness, etc.) in Photoshop by way of Acrobat's "Edit in..." dialog. I wouldn't be surprised if it screws up (or strips) the DPI value when it returns the image to Acrobat. Argh. Lessons learned.....

     

    If your viewer allows you to turn off the facing-page mode that I made the default in the PDF and turn on "display at screen height" or similar, it should at least display each page properly for you. The dots are all there but the reader doesn't know what to do with two facing pages with the same dot-dimensions but different DPI settings.

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    New version of V19N9 posted (same link) with Raindog2112's rescan of my crumpled page along with many skew, out-of-order and contrast corrections. Still not perfect but much improved.

     

    Also, I found the compatibility settings in Acrobat XI and it appears I'm saving (default settings) for PDF 1.7 readers. So it shouldn't be excluding much. Also, anyone can download the .jp2.zip file from Archive and recompile a PDF to an older version as well.

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    I always believe in this day an age there's little reason to sacrifice compatibility and quality to save "bandwidth". Just look at how much garbage flows on the Internet as it is.

    As with everything, there is a balance to be struck. I agree that that balance should lean away from pinching bytes and toward quality and, to some extent, compatibility. I'd be interested in making sure docs work in other viewers - I understand that there are faster/less exploitable products out there than Adobe's own, and of course there are other platforms besides Windows - but I'd draw a line at supporting really old versions of viewers. At some point, it's time to upgrade.

     

    I'm going to download Foxit for testing and try to find the compatibility options in Acrobat Pro. I used to know where that menu was....

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    Hey silent700, I can open with adobe reader/acrobat, but not an older version of foxit reader.

    I am using Acrobat Pro XI - do you know what version of PDF that Foxit wants? Saving back too old may increase the file size or other bad things. I don't have much experience with maintaining compatibility with older readers.

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    I have tried my hand at scanning an issue of Byte. I've got a lot of experience scanning B/W documentation, greyscale pics, etc., but color jobs are a bit new to me. My biggest issue seems to be bleed-through on some of the white pages. Adjusting brightness and contrast helped a bit, later in the scan. Unfortunately the ToC page was cruelly eaten by the scanner's rollers, so the only image we have there is of the corpse laid out on the flatbed. Still (mostly) legible, however.

     

    Here is Byte V19N9 (September 1994) at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/ByteV19N9

  8. Posted · Edited by Silent700

    Hey all, while ThunmpNugget is currently MIA, I have been compiling a list of the issues of Byte currently available on The Internet Archive and am working to make sure that ThumpNuggest's scans are mirrored there as well. It'll be a little bit of a process but here is what I am working with: http://anarchivism.org/w/Byte_(Magazine)#Downloads

    I was going to post, asking if anyone had a definitive list of what Byte issues had been scanned (and any problems with the scans,) as I have a lot of paper copies that I don't have room for any more, but this seems to be the answer. I hope it will be kept current.

     

    I do a lot of scanning myself but I don't see getting to them any time soon. I'd be happy to donate missing issues to anyone doing quality scans.

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    4. I use a program called Combine PDFs to colate (sp?) everything in proper order (5 minutes)

    Can you link to this program? I have had minor success writing my own scripts to handle collation, page splitting (for 11x17 scans of unstapled brochures, magazines, etc) but if there's something out there that handles it better, I'd like to use it.

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    Do we have a definitive list of a) all issues, B) all issues that have been scanned and c) the quality of each scan (to determine if they should be re-done?)

     

    I have a fairly complete Byte collection. I do a lot of document scanning but have no attempted magazines yet. I am reluctant to destroy any earlier issues (pre-85 or so) but later ones I could probably donate for scanning.

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