[sdiy] re-publishing typewritten material

[Vladimir Pantelic]

On 09.11.20 14:59, mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Nov 2020, Barry Klein wrote:
>> about to redraw the schematics.  As it stands, I have the book in PDF form
>> with a file size of about 40MB (334 pages).  Not something you can email.  I
>> am sure there are those out there that would take on the job of doing all this
>> for hundreds of dollars, but I don't believe the cost would be justified.
> 
> I'm surprised that it's only 40M for 334 pages of un-OCRed scanned
> material.  My Leapfrog VCF manual is about 40M for 76 pages and that's
> direct-to-PDF LaTeX rendered, not scanned.  I would expect my file to be
> much more compact per page than scanned material. 

if one was to employ the services of Messrs Page & Brin of Mountainview,
CA, one could maybe find a PDF of the above mentioned book on the
"series of tubes", it comprising 308 pages and clocking in at a mere
6.2MB and yet being quite readable - in fact it's way better than the
~40MB version that one could maybe also find, if one looked...

(DISCLAIMER: nothing of the above is to be construed to imply that any
such query has actually happened)