Re: Converting a manual into a PDF

["brad" <mrbrad(remove)@ll.net>]

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> Incidentally, how many pages do you have left to scan?  100?  1,000?
> Googol?
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thanks for the info...(sigh....i hate office equipment)>.....as far as stuff
to do compile yet from my apple // collection of odd ball stuff...i'll prob
have more then 2000 items...yeah i do have that much stuff....and have prob
tossed
3x as much..it helps to .....back in the day have friends that ran a pc
store..and
another friend who ran a pawn shop .and of course the local university (msu)
that
had the good old surplus sales when they went to mac then to pc...

so the stuff i got was the stuff worth saving..about 90 or more rubber maid
containers full....don't even get me started on the util disks etc i have to
use
ciderpress on..but that is another year...

so again....once identify this stuff.. via my little clipboard and xeroxed
blank
templates i use for info..and then make another xerox of it all and sort by
area
ie...ext hd's internal hds for apple2...video  card....sasi hd's etc etc ad
nauseum..

i then just want to make .pdf docs of the whole works....all 2000 some pages
by
number id i have ....2000 some pages again that i xeroxed (copied) but
sorted by
category...and of course some how having all my disks etc avail another 3000
some
indv titles...via ciderpress so people can find the drivers for this
stuff...and just toss it
all up someplace as a download...so the a) info won't get lost ...ie
disks/docs and b)
people can find out stuff i may have that could match something down to the
eprom version
or whatever mucking thru the pdf by item number or category

the only good thing about this is it is cold outside..i don't have  a life
(obviously) and i keep
finding stuff..i did not know i had ...so far i have found a twgs w/32k
daughter board i did not
know i had...and 2 wildcards..and something called a debug card for hardware
development
...oh....and a second ohio kache card...yeah my crap is that old..i got my
1st //e old style heavy case
with the white keys  in fall of 1983....sigh...i was in grad school (did not
work out) .. had a wild child red headed
sex crazed girlfriend (poof....) and very little debt....and a no gray
hair....so just grabbing stuff from
1983 till now...i'm lucky i don't have more stuff...but need to get this
organized...get the util disks or docs
from back in the day out there on the net...and/or stuff together...or
basically some of this stuff will
be nice to look at but unable to run.(ie...i need a mandrake disk to install
digicard network i have but
of course no one has that ...not to mention mastery development
network....docs/disk....you see where this
is going)

so anyway my contribution....so yeah..around 4000 pages of stuff ..even in a
hopper 25 pages at a time
automatically scanned (non-color) even 1side at a time...is eventually the
way to go if all you guys here
want to see/bug me/find instr/docs for some odd kinda ap2 project i have
tripped over.....because i'm
NOT gonna put this stuff in a database...it is a pain in the ass just
scribbling it down on an inventory sheet
one cabinet at a time...so at 407 ...i'm prob 1/15th done....

i could never be a archivest....yech...


thanks for the help at least i have a start to looking at stuff in
ebay...prob be at least (optimistic) a year before
i'd actually need that copy scan unit with sheet feed thou.....

brad
former sysop lost-gonzo.com
mrbrad AT lost-gonzo.com