[sdiy] re-publishing typewritten material

[mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca]

On Mon, 9 Nov 2020, Vladimir Pantelic wrote:
> On 09.11.20 14:59, mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote:
> > 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

> 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...

That's not un-OCRed scanned images.  As I said, rendered text is smaller
in a PDF.

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Matthew Skala
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