Re: You shouldn't have that...

From: Ethan Dicks (ethan_dicks_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 1999-04-29 03:48:42

--- peter karlsson <pk@mds.mdh.se> wrote:
> > On the subject of preservation... for this stuff, I have scanned it...
> 
> I hope that you have considered donating it to iDOC= or Project 64 when
> you're ready? Would be real interesting to have!

I am unaware of the iDOC= and Project 64.  I was planning on sticking them
up on my own retrcomputing web page and putting a copy on funet.  The farther
I can distribute this stuff, the better. 

> For iDOC=, I can take both formats. Especially when there are schematics
> that are hard to make into ASCII format.

Where do you want it sent?
 
> > If it _is_ possible to turn old typewritten pages into PDF files, the
> > question is _should_ we do so.
> 
> One could simply scan the pages and make the scanned pictures the pages of
> the PDF file. It's entirely possible.

I was unclear.  I meant as text-based PDFs, not bitmapped files... two or
three orders of magnitude smaller.  My 7-page document is about 25K as a
PDF conversion of a PS file emitted from word.

-ethan

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