[Simh] scandocs.trailing-edge.com

[Rob Jarratt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-
> edge.com] On Behalf Of Tim Shoppa
> Sent: 29 January 2011 15:29
> To: TTMRICHTER at gmail.com; SIMH at trailing-edge.com; SHOPPA at trailing-
> edge.com; r.jarratt at computer.org; frisbie at flying-disk.com
> Subject: Re: [Simh] scandocs.trailing-edge.com
> 
> "Rob Jarratt" <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > The site is back now. However I find the scandocs pages awkward to use
> > as they are not in a single PDF which I can scroll up and down and
> > download and view locally.
> 
> I made scandocs.trailing-edge.com back when I had not fully adapted to the
> PDF world. I'm still not sure that PDF is the optimal archive format for
> scanned documents but as far as readability on a wide range of convenient
> display devices they are the obvious choice.
> 
> As of today, the default
> 
>   http://scandocs.trailing-edge.com/
> 
> page has PDF documents.
> 
> The old PNG images are available at
> 
>   http://scandocs.trailing-edge.com/indexpng.html
> 
> if anyone prefers them.
> 
> Tim.
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Interestingly, I created a Word document containing the PNGs earlier today,
before I knew about the PDFs, and it was half the size of the PDF.

Regards

Rob