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Re: Syndicomm Scam

On Tue, 23 Apr 2013, Michael J. Mahon wrote:


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.
I seem to recall an explanation for that in this newsgroup years back, though I can't remember the explanation. 

  Michael