Re: Hardcore Computist Magazine online...

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Rubywand" <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote in message
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: Bill Garber writes ...
: >
: > "Rubywand" <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote
: >
: > I like that better than the way the other Computist Mags
: > are being posted. I started to capture issue #1, and it
: > was taking so long to make folders and rename them so that
: > I could recognize them more readily on my computer that I
: > gave up after only a few pages. I'm not condemning what has
: > been done with them so far. It's great for picking out only
: > certain pages, but it is difficult to snag the whole archive.
: > There are a few type-ins I'd like to snag and that is great
: > for that.
:
: Thanks; glad you like the scans. Each galley sheet is
: a whole tabloid page reduced to a regular size sheet;
: so, yes, it's very compact. The problem with doing
: earlier, magazine format issues that way-- e.g.,
: reformatting and putting 2-3 pages of content on one
: page-- is that you lose the actual appearance of
: the issue.

Everyone is doing a great job.  have no trouble reading
any of the Computist mag scans by anyone so far. Wonderful.

: For the type-ins, at least starting around issue #52,
: you can get the stuff on the 'Library Disks'. Many of
: those are on USA2WUG at
: http://apple2.org.za/gswv/USA2WUG/ComputistLibraryDisks/ .

Kool, I will go see what I can get. Thanks.

: I've experimented with zipping PSP-produced jpegs of
: scans before and discovered you get nearly zero additional
: compression. (Just now did a test on one-- the 646k jpeg
: got reduced to a 645k .zip file!)

: At 1100x1600 and 16 colors, the 650k pages are probably
: about as compact as they can get without a major sacrifice
: in quality.

Actually I wasn't as concerned with compression as
consolidation. It is easier to download 5 x 2.5MB files
than 15 x 500KB files, don't you agree? Or better yet,
one 7.5MB file, if you have fast ethernet, that isn't
a problem. Of course, downloading with a //e at 9600
it would not be fun, right Howard???   8o)

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