?? anomoly on BAMA site Bendix BC-221
I'm looking for a manual for the BC-221 frequency meter. In
tracing this thru the BAMA site I reached a downloadable 1 meg file which turned out to be just a high resolution image of the cover of the manual. Is the useful information about the unit stored elsewhere under a different filespec ?? |
On Tue, 10 May 2005 15:45:21 -0400, William Mutch
wrote: I'm looking for a manual for the BC-221 frequency meter. In tracing this thru the BAMA site I reached a downloadable 1 meg file which turned out to be just a high resolution image of the cover of the manual. Is the useful information about the unit stored elsewhere under a different filespec ?? What you discovered was not a high resolution image of the cover of the manual, but rather a 38 page manual in djvu format. Do you have the djvu plug-in installed in your browser? If so, the control panel just above the "cover" will allow you to page through the manual. Hope this helps. Ken K4XL *** BoatAnchor Manual Archive *** On the web at http://bama.sbc.edu and http://bama.edebris.com FTP site info: bama.sbc.edu login: anonymous p/w: youremailadr |
Behold, Kenneth Grimm scribed on tube chassis:
On Tue, 10 May 2005 15:45:21 -0400, William Mutch wrote: I'm looking for a manual for the BC-221 frequency meter. In tracing this thru the BAMA site I reached a downloadable 1 meg file which turned out to be just a high resolution image of the cover of the manual. Is the useful information about the unit stored elsewhere under a different filespec ?? What you discovered was not a high resolution image of the cover of the manual, but rather a 38 page manual in djvu format. Do you have the djvu plug-in installed in your browser? If so, the control panel just above the "cover" will allow you to page through the manual. Hope this helps. Ken K4XL *** BoatAnchor Manual Archive *** On the web at http://bama.sbc.edu and http://bama.edebris.com FTP site info: bama.sbc.edu login: anonymous p/w: youremailadr Out of curiosity, why djvu instead of pdf? -- Gregg "t3h g33k" http://geek.scorpiorising.ca *Ratings are for transistors, tubes have guidelines* |
"Gregg" wrote Out of curiosity, why djvu instead of pdf? ***Go to the BAMA site,ALL is explained there!! Brian Goldsmith |
On Tue, 10 May 2005 13:43:18 -0700, Gregg wrote:
Behold, Kenneth Grimm scribed on tube chassis: On Tue, 10 May 2005 15:45:21 -0400, William Mutch wrote: I'm looking for a manual for the BC-221 frequency meter. In tracing this thru the BAMA site I reached a downloadable 1 meg file which turned out to be just a high resolution image of the cover of the manual. Is the useful information about the unit stored elsewhere under a different filespec ?? What you discovered was not a high resolution image of the cover of the manual, but rather a 38 page manual in djvu format. Do you have the djvu plug-in installed in your browser? If so, the control panel just above the "cover" will allow you to page through the manual. Hope this helps. Ken K4XL Out of curiosity, why djvu instead of pdf? Fair question. BAMA is a voluntary, cooperative effort. If someone submits a bunch of gif, jpg, png or other format, individual page images, I am happy to put it into pdf format. However, if someone submits a manual in djvu format, that is the way it goes onto the server. A careful reading of the BAMA site will reveal that I am very unhappy with djvu because of support issues and encourage those who contribute manuals to use pdf or raw image files. Still, there are those who prefer djvu because of the phenomenal compression that it is capable of. If they send me a manual that fits the BAMA mission, I'm certainly not going to refuse it because it is in djvu format. BAMA continues to grow because folks are willing to go to the trouble to scan and share their manuals. I'm not about to do anything to discourage that! 8*) Ken K4XL *** BoatAnchor Manual Archive *** On the web at http://bama.sbc.edu and http://bama.edebris.com FTP site info: bama.sbc.edu login: anonymous p/w: youremailadr |
Behold, Kenneth Grimm scribed on tube chassis:
On Tue, 10 May 2005 13:43:18 -0700, Gregg wrote: Behold, Kenneth Grimm scribed on tube chassis: On Tue, 10 May 2005 15:45:21 -0400, William Mutch wrote: I'm looking for a manual for the BC-221 frequency meter. In tracing this thru the BAMA site I reached a downloadable 1 meg file which turned out to be just a high resolution image of the cover of the manual. Is the useful information about the unit stored elsewhere under a different filespec ?? What you discovered was not a high resolution image of the cover of the manual, but rather a 38 page manual in djvu format. Do you have the djvu plug-in installed in your browser? If so, the control panel just above the "cover" will allow you to page through the manual. Hope this helps. Ken K4XL Out of curiosity, why djvu instead of pdf? Fair question. BAMA is a voluntary, cooperative effort. If someone submits a bunch of gif, jpg, png or other format, individual page images, I am happy to put it into pdf format. However, if someone submits a manual in djvu format, that is the way it goes onto the server. A careful reading of the BAMA site will reveal that I am very unhappy with djvu because of support issues and encourage those who contribute manuals to use pdf or raw image files. Still, there are those who prefer djvu because of the phenomenal compression that it is capable of. If they send me a manual that fits the BAMA mission, I'm certainly not going to refuse it because it is in djvu format. BAMA continues to grow because folks are willing to go to the trouble to scan and share their manuals. I'm not about to do anything to discourage that! 8*) Ken K4XL *** BoatAnchor Manual Archive *** On the web at http://bama.sbc.edu and http://bama.edebris.com FTP site info: bama.sbc.edu login: anonymous p/w: youremailadr Thanks! :-) -- Gregg "t3h g33k" http://geek.scorpiorising.ca *Ratings are for transistors, tubes have guidelines* |
Kenneth Grimm wrote:
BAMA is a voluntary, cooperative effort. If someone submits a bunch of gif, jpg, png or other format, individual page images, I am happy to put it into pdf format. However, if someone submits a manual in djvu format, that is the way it goes onto the server. A careful reading of the BAMA site will reveal that I am very unhappy with djvu because of support issues and encourage those who contribute manuals to use pdf or raw image files. Still, there are those who prefer djvu because of the phenomenal compression that it is capable of. If they send me a manual that fits the BAMA mission, I'm certainly not going to refuse it because it is in djvu format. BAMA continues to grow because folks are willing to go to the trouble to scan and share their manuals. I'm not about to do anything to discourage that! 8*) Ken K4XL How about the Paper Port (*.max) format? The files are quite small in 2 bit B&W, and there is a free stand alone viewer. You can see a few scans and the get the viewer at: http://home.earthlink.net/~michaelaterrell/ -- Former professional electron wrangler. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
On 6/6/05 1:47 AM, in article , "Michael A.
Terrell" wrote: Kenneth Grimm wrote: BAMA is a voluntary, cooperative effort. If someone submits a bunch of gif, jpg, png or other format, individual page images, I am happy to put it into pdf format. However, if someone submits a manual in djvu format, that is the way it goes onto the server. A careful reading of the BAMA site will reveal that I am very unhappy with djvu because of support issues and encourage those who contribute manuals to use pdf or raw image files. Still, there are those who prefer djvu because of the phenomenal compression that it is capable of. If they send me a manual that fits the BAMA mission, I'm certainly not going to refuse it because it is in djvu format. BAMA continues to grow because folks are willing to go to the trouble to scan and share their manuals. I'm not about to do anything to discourage that! 8*) Ken K4XL How about the Paper Port (*.max) format? The files are quite small in 2 bit B&W, and there is a free stand alone viewer. You can see a few scans and the get the viewer at: http://home.earthlink.net/~michaelaterrell/ Having yet another non-standard format is not a good option. Also, it appears to me that the .max format may only have a reader for the PC. Us Mac users have some problems there. I don't care for djvu, but it gets the job done (somewhat). When I need to use it, I convert the image to a format I can edit to cut clean-up the fuzzy edges left by enlarging the, usually too small, djvu image. Don |
On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 08:47:14 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote: Kenneth Grimm wrote: BAMA is a voluntary, cooperative effort. If someone submits a bunch of gif, jpg, png or other format, individual page images, I am happy to put it into pdf format. However, if someone submits a manual in djvu format, that is the way it goes onto the server. snip Ken K4XL How about the Paper Port (*.max) format? The files are quite small in 2 bit B&W, and there is a free stand alone viewer. You can see a few scans and the get the viewer at: http://home.earthlink.net/~michaelaterrell/ Interesting product, but, like it or not, pf is the industry standard. You can tell that by what Scan Soft say in their ad for Paper Port Pro 10 at http://www.scansoft.com/paperport/ I can't really justify the expense of Adobe Acrobat and Paper Port 10 both since all the operating expenses for BAMA come out of my pocket. Saving space used to be a major constraint on BAMA, but storage space is now very cheap. Of course, I still try to reduce the size of pf files as much as possible realizing that there are many folks who are stuck with dial-up connections to the Internet. Ken K4XL *** BoatAnchor Manual Archive *** On the web at http://bama.sbc.edu and http://bama.edebris.com FTP site info: bama.sbc.edu login: anonymous p/w: youremailadr |
Kenneth Grimm wrote:
Interesting product, but, like it or not, pf is the industry standard. You can tell that by what Scan Soft say in their ad for Paper Port Pro 10 at http://www.scansoft.com/paperport/ I can't really justify the expense of Adobe Acrobat and Paper Port 10 both since all the operating expenses for BAMA come out of my pocket. Saving space used to be a major constraint on BAMA, but storage space is now very cheap. Of course, I still try to reduce the size of pf files as much as possible realizing that there are many folks who are stuck with dial-up connections to the Internet. Ken K4XL The stand alone reader software comes with the scanner software. I bought a Visioneer 4400 USB a couple years ago for less than $50 and got Paperport with it. I like that I can straighten scans with it. For PDF files I use an older version of PDF995, before they started charging for it. The PDF files on my website http://home.earthlink.net/~mike.terrell/ (and others) were created with PDF995 It also has the option to encrypt a file so I can post a file for someone, e-mail them the password so no one else can access the file. I wasn't advocating that you switch to it, but it is a compact and useful format. After I scan files I can post them in *.max format, or convert them to bit mapped files and convert them to *.gif format. Paperport doesn't support *.GIF for licensing reasons. I was just asking if files could be added in that format, if the reader is provided. A lot of antique radio manuals are scanned in *.max format and are available on the net that way. I have been converting my collection of paper test equipment manuals to that format. I spend a lot of time cleaning up each page, and aligning and splicing parts of multi-page schematics. I usually get the splices to align to one pixel offset, top to bottom. Also, i scan at 300 DPI so I can do OCR on the text part of manuals to convert it to clean text. I can use this, with the scanned graphics to create a very nice PDF but it can take a couple weeks to do a single manual. -- Former professional electron wrangler. Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
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