[Simh] scandocs.trailing-edge.com

[Toby Thain]

On 29/01/11 12:47 PM, Rob Jarratt wrote:
>> -----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.
> 

I wouldn't trust Word to not silently downsample imported graphics. DOC
is about the worst container format imaginable.

For bitmaps, images in TIFF-G4 (a very compact encoding) can be
transcoded to PDF, using free tools such as libtiff's.

--Toby

> Regards
> 
> Rob
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