Re: Syndicomm Scam

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Sean Fahey <a2fan@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 10:51:00 AM UTC-5, D Finnigan wrote:
>  
>> If Syndicomm is licensed from Apple, why didn't Apple provide high-quality
>> masters of these documents?
> 
> 
> Pretty sure I know the answer to this one. The license was originally
> issued to ByteWorks, which eventually transferred it to Syndicomm when
> Mike decided to leave the Apple II business. Syndicomm inherited all of
> ByteWorks originals and proofs, some of which weren't in the best
> condition considering the era they were originally scanned. I recall
> Sheppy having to rescan many of them, to modernize and improve their quality.
> 
> I have a few docs from the ByteWorks era and the resolution is not very
> good. Had Sheppy not released all the APDA content on CD, I was faced
> with buying replacements one by one and that was going to get expensive.

I think David meant Postscript files for the documents, or .pdf's.  It
seems strange for a licensee to have to resort to essentially xeroxing a
master paper copy...or the logical equivalent of printing scans of paper
documents. 

-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon