Re: Apple II Reference Manual Addendum PDF now online

["Craig Bower" <to.email.me@post.a.request.message>]

"Scott Alfter" <salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org> wrote in message 
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> JPEG implies that you're saving grayscale (8 bpp) or color (24 bpp) data.
> You could get better print quality (and drastically reduce file size) by
> converting to 1 bpp.  Here's what I would do with what you're trying to
> scan:

Hi Scott,

Wow, I must say, I've gone ahead reducing the BPP to 4-bit greyscale, what a 
dramatic
reduction in file size.  I'm happy enough with the results that I'm going to 
redo all
the manuals on my site in this manner.

I did try 1 BPP greyscale, but it seemed to be losing too much image quality 
for
my liking.  C'est la vie! :)

I finished scanning the DOS manual, and it weighed in at 29.5 MB JPG 24-bit 
color.
After converting all the slides to GIF, 4-bit greyscale and 4-bit color for 
the pages with
green or color, it's nowt 8.9MB in size and available here:

http://www.turbo-2.com/apple/pdf/a2dos.pdf

A savings of (to me) an incredible 20.6 MB of un-necessary color / bpp data!

Thank you to all who provided suggestions on scanning, and bpp information!

Later,
Craig