[Coco] Scanned in manual for OS-9 Assembler

[Diego Barizo]

Saving it as an optimized PNG, went down to 85 Kb

Diego


George Ramsower wrote:
> When I scan documents, I scan at 300 DPI, grey scale, then in Paint 
> Shop, I convert it to two color and save it as a GIF.
> An 8.5 X 11 page will save at about 120k file size.
>
> This one came out at 116K
>
> Example: http://coco.thetinbox.com/Image3.gif
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Devries"
>
>> Hi, Fedor,
>>
>> I always scan in Black & White, *unless* the document has colours 
>> which do not scan properly that way. If necessary, I scan in either 
>> colour or grayscale, but for just straight text docs, b&w works best.
>>
>> I think using grayscale does increase the file size significantly.
>>
>> I have no idea whether Acrobat 6 (which I use) does a better job of 
>> compression than version 4, or whether the output of the scanner has 
>> some bearing on that.
>>
>> What I'll do is print one of those docs from your PDF files, and then 
>> re-scan that doc, and see if I end up with a significantly smaller 
>> doc. I'll let you know the result.
>>
>> -- 
>> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>>
>> Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
>> the capacity to be his spokesman,
>> so that I know how to help the weary.
>>
>> website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
>> my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fedor Steeman"
>>
>>> Hi Bob,
>>>
>>> If you have tips on how I can make my scans more compact, I am 
>>> interested to
>>> hear about them.
>>>
>>> I scan using a HP OfficeJet 6310 at 300 dpi grayscale. I also use 
>>> Acrobat
>>> 4.0.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Fedor
>>>
>>> On 29/03/2008, Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Fedor,
>>>>
>>>> Can I ask why these files are so large? What DPI are you scanning? 
>>>> I have
>>>> docs here that I scanned which have many more pages and are way 
>>>> smaller. I
>>>> scan at 300DPI, and that produces very readable documents. I'm 
>>>> using Adobe
>>>> Acrobat 6 to scan and make the PDF files, using a CanoScan 5200F 
>>>> scanner.
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>>>>
>>>> Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
>>>> the capacity to be his spokesman,
>>>> so that I know how to help the weary.
>>>>
>>>> website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
>>>> my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/
>