[sdiy] Original ARP Service Manuals

[Samppa Tolvanen]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:39 AM, Karl Ekdahl <elektrodwarf at yahoo.se> wrote:
> Okay, got one up at http://www.sdiy.org/knas/servicemanuals/servicemanuals.php
>
> Please revise the quality, my scanner doesn't do better then 300dpi sadly but it should be totally readable (i hope).

It's totally readable.

> Any good ideas on how to do this effectively? Just doing this 8-page manual took me ~1-2 hours using Gimp for scanning/rotating/cropping and then Open Office to make it into a multi-page PDF. I'm a windows user :-(

Setup time is always there. Just did some scanning. Irfanview was way
to go and with plugins it can spit out single page PDFs already and
then I used ghostscript to convert these to single document.

I advice against using "wrong" intermediate formats like jpg for B&W lineart.

Also, if using TWAIN software to access scanner all the cropping
should be done it.

Samppa