[Coco] List of copied manuals ready to be scanned

[Andrew]

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> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:16:01 +0200
> From: "Fedor Steeman" <petrander at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] List of copied manuals ready to be scanned
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
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> Great!
> 
> I will start throwing stuff to recycling that have already been scanned in
> (except originals of course) and take them off my list.
> 
> I also have a bunch of newsletters from the former Dutch CoCo user group,
> "CoCoNut". These are a bit trickier to scan in, because of the format; they
> are two-sided, A5-sized and stapled on the back. I could of course cut the
> back over and put them on the document feeder, but I would still need to use
> time to shuffle all the pages on the right positions. I would also destroy
> the originals in doing so. I will see about this. I may also have an issue
> or two from the European OS-9 user group as initiated by Peter Tutelaers
> (not the same as EFFO I think).

Boy, all this new stuff coming out of hidy-holes and I just purchased 
the CoCoDVD collection - will I ever catch up?

Fedor, if you have something unique like that, don't destroy it 
physically - destroy it digitally! In other words, scan, cut, paste, 
stitch, etc in Photochop (or Gimp, or whatever your preference is) - A5 
is a weird size (do they they even make scanners for that?).

If you are going to have to go through a lot of trouble for a scan, you 
might as well do it on the computer instead of physically. Yes, this 
will be a very painful thing to go through, and it won't be exact 
(impossible to get the alignment perfect, without using some kind of 
external frame). But you can get it really close with some time and 
effort. Just make sure you scan at a very high resolution (I would 
imagine offsets would be easier to hide at a higher res - I may be 
wrong), then once you have the document reassembled in your editing 
program, reduce it down to something reasonable for the "final" 
(although, in today's world, keeping it original size shouldn't be a big 
deal, except for those still on modems).

Well - good luck! I can't wait to see your contributions!

-- Andrew L Ayers
    Glendale, Arizona