009 News... E-version tests

[B.Meldon]

009 News is sent to the printers in PDF format and has been for some time. Since the advent of using

[Graeme Dunbar]

I know I caused a certain amount of "drift" by mentioning scanning which is not relevant to the discussion on delivery of future copies by electronic means. I do agree though that if there was an interest in scanning for heritage and archival purposes then having it done professionally is probably the way to go. A problem I found was "aliasing" of the printed colour images when scanning.

I've not tried all the setting on my scanner but I suspect it would need a higher resolution scanner and cleverer software to then compress the images without introducing the artifacts I get now.

However - as I mentioned - my not too expensive scanner (Canon CanoScan 700F, about

[Frank]

Graeme,

Drifting further I know but I suspect the reduction in file size comes by conversion to text rather than simple compression, so no trouble with artefacts.  A pdf file of course can be an image or text or a combination.

Online access to the 009 News archive would certainly be very useful.   I think the 7mm NG Assoc have just put theirs online, might be worth talking to them.

Frank

[Hobby]

Any chance you could set up a separate thread in which you could liaise directly with Alan, lads?!!!!  ;)

[ECMT]

I may have left this a bit late but I would also be willing to volunteer for the E-version test. I've received the August issue today and noted