Assuming you would not be breaking any copy right laws, I think it would be worth everyone's money, to have it profesionally repoduced, to gif, or jpg format. I would gladly, throw in $1 a head, times say only half the list was interested, (350), That's $350. That should do it! Eric 86-VW4x4 vw4x4@fyi.net 72-240z Pittsburgh, PA USA 1936-Chrysler
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Racer X wrote: > One more suggestion, there are audio-visual places here in Houston that specialize > in > transfering things like video to CD to movies and such. Perhaps a place like that > could > put those onto CD for you...eh? > Tony > --------- > > Blue Eyes wrote: > > > Since I have, WE have one genuine dealer Vanagon Microfiche. It has about 102 > > pages of wonderful exploded views and part numbers that could serve this > > community of friends. The fiche measures 9.3 inches by 7.1 inch. Individual > > pages are laid out in a format .9 cm wide by .7 cm. tall. This appears to be > > like either A size or 11 inch by 8 1/2 as a comparable full size hardcopy > > equivalent. To give you a feel for the scale of this reduction, that's about > > 1/1000th of the full size area per page and a linear reduction by a factor of > > about 31.4 to 1. My scanner is capable of true optical resolution as fine as > > 600 by 1200. Interpolation "resolution" beyond the optical limits won't help > > us. 600 x 1200 dpi sounds pretty good for detailed examination of postage > > stamps etc., but when we divide that by 31.4 it's only the full page size > > equivalent to 19.1 by 38.2 dots per inch! That's not even close to being fine > > enough to what we need. > > > > I hope one among us has access to the high accuracy scanning equipment > > necessary to make really crisp detailed Jpegs directly. If that connection > > fails, we can try to optically enlarge each page and then scan the resulting > > hard copy into Jpegs that could display on most computers. It would be a poor > > decision to skimp on the conversion quality by accepting some marginally blurry > > public library machine. These might be used over and over by, well, who knows > > where someone like Bob might send them. If you can get this scanned by one of > > the right kind of dedicated optical equipment, contact me and let's talk. All > > on this List should thank you. > > John > |
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