[Coco] [RFC] Rainbow index compilation available (PDF)

[Luis Fernández]

very good

> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:15:01 -0500
> From: linville at tuxdriver.com
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: [Coco] [RFC] Rainbow index compilation available (PDF)
> 
> After seeing a reminder from someone on coco3.com that The Rainbow
> published indices in their annual July issues, I quickly sought-out
> scans of those issues.  I then got inspired to use pdftk to cut the
> index pages out of those issues and to stitch them back together,
> along with the Table of Contents from the last partial year of issues
> without an index.  The result is here:
> 
> 	http://www.tuxdriver.com/download/rainbow-index.pdf
> 
> The source scans are image-only, and I have not yet taken the time
> to see if I can get them OCR'ed and stitched back together with a
> searchable text layer.	So, if you are looking for something you will
> have to check each individual index by eye -- sorry!  Better than
> having to do it with paper editions or after downloading scans of
> whole magazines...
> 
> If anyone has better scans (i.e. smaller, higher resolution, better
> source material, or with searchable text) then feel free to send them
> to me -- I can recreate the index fairly easily from individual parts.
> And if anyone thinks I should be doing this or it is a waste of time
> then feel free to say so.
> 
> Otherwise, I hope you find this useful!
> 
> John
> 
> P.S.  If there is general satisfaction with the compilation, then
> I'll upload it to maltedmedia or whatever.
> -- 
> John W. Linville		Someday the world will need a hero, and you
> linville at tuxdriver.com			might be all we have.  Be ready.
> 
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