[Coco] [Color Computer] 1984 djvu conversion

[John W. Linville]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 09:50:01AM +1000, Bob Devries wrote:
> I have difficulty understanding why the PDF files of these magazines are 
> so large.
>
> I have scanned some of my copies of Australian Rainbow. All pages except 
> the front and back covers are black & white, and I scanned them at 300 
> DPI. They are readable... as much as the originals were readable (but 
> that's another story)... but they are not text searchable.
>
> Of the 30 magazines I scanned, the largest PDF file size was 6939KB from 
> 76 pages (275mm x 205mm) and the smallest 1800KB from 60 pages.

Perhaps you are measuring using metric bytes?  I think they are bigger...

:-) :-) :-)

John
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