[Coco] Vol. IX No. 1 Scanned

[Roger Taylor]

At 09:29 AM 6/15/2005, you wrote:
>I am in the process of testing and tweaking the .pdf conversion process, but
>all in all I am pretty encouraged.  One run yielded a 70mb .pdf file, which
>averages out to approximately 530kb per page.  If I can achieve this
>consistently I will be able to pack quite a few magazines on a single DVD...
>My estimates for Volume IX is around 850mb for the PDF files of the scanned
>magazines.  Adding in the files from the Rainbow on Disk is pretty small,
>but it's unknown what size issues will be presented with the cassette
>image/wav/etc files.
>
>One thing I did notice was that I am not going to be able to get away with
>not doing post processing on the files.  Since the magazines are old and
>some of them are starting to yellow that comes through on the scans.  The
>Gimp is a wonderful tool to fix them up - I have been using the "select by
>color" tool to select the yellowed areas and the removal has not lessoned
>the overall quality of the scans.
>
>Regards,
>Michael Harwood


Michael,

Here is a cover of Family Computing (an 80's magazine that featured CoCo 
programs in BASIC) that I scanned and ran through both MGI Photo Suite's 
oil paint filter, then loaded into LVIEW and dithered down to 128 
colors.  You can see how the tarnished image improves with little 
effort.  I haven't tried it on higher detailed pages yet.

Another excellent option that would require way more effort is to use 
Macromedia's FLASH software to vectorize the covers which would allow the 
peeling away of yellowing, splotches, or other blemishes, as well as allow 
the perfect resizing of the pages.


-- 
Roger Taylor