Re: interesting link

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Redone and reposted at links as pdf files as promised .



Linards Ticmanis wrote:
> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>
> >> How is best to scan the manual-  i.e what format , what  dpi , how
> >> large should the ftp size be ?
> >
> > I'd find a single .pdf the most convenient format, and somewhere
> > between 200dpi and 300dpi.
>
> I've had very good results with just 150 dpi, when using "oversampling"
> during the actual scan. The newer Epson scanner software at least can do
> this very easily - it's got some stupid, easy to trademark but hard to
> remember name though, I think it was "unsharp mask" or some such. I
> suspect other manufacturers offer this option too, under different (but
> probably still stupid) names. The idea is to scan more pixels and
> average them out, just like Font Smoothing and such things do for output.
>
> I always scan as TIFF, then convert to PNG, and finally use PDFCreator
> for the output, with its default settings (except maybe for paper size
> and orientation). The PNG step is required since somehow PDFCreator
> and/or the Windows Imaging stuff isn't good at going from TIFF directly
> to PDF. As PNG is lossless, only time is lost in the intermediate step,
> not quality.
> 
> -- 
> Linards Ticmanis