P3D Re: Stereo World on ONE CD?

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On 10 May 98 at 17:27, Gabriel Jacob wrote:

> Dan writes:
> >I do not believe there would be one CD with all the back issues,
> >but rather a CD per year maybe with higher quality images,
> >JPS versions, anaglyphs, etc... (NOTE: NOTHING IS SET ABOUT THIS
> >AT THIS PARTICULAR POINT!)
> 
> That's good to hear (one year per CD) because I failed to
> mention, the National Geographic CD text quality leaves alot to
> be desired. Anyone contemplating purchasing it, better make sure
> they can return it if they are not happy with it. I think what
> Dan mentions about one CD per year is a great idea since it would
> result in much better quality, assuming no OCR but rather text
> as scanned images, as National Geographic did.

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Good morning everybody,

Although I am also one of the lucky guys who own a complete set of 
original Stereo World magazines, I'd certainly be interested in a digital 
S/W archive as well.

However, only *scans* are not sufficient. We do have computers to work for 
us, to do the boring search-jobs, to "eat through" piles of text. So 
probably the best format would be either Adobe's PDF (Acrobat) - or just 
scanned pages (as mentioned above), but the *text* in a separate file with 
reference to the original issue and page.

I assume that no one would dig through a scanned archive to track down an 
article about (for example) the Bierstadt Brothers. But with the 
possibility to search the archive, getting the information would be very 
easy.

The main problem is certainly: who is willing to donate his/her time to 
the NSA to do this job? It would involve a lot of high-quality scanning, 
OCR, manual correction, PhotoShop and PageMaker work and PDF/Acrobat 
Distilling... After all: please do remember that Stereo World is 
copyrighted by NSA, Inc., so their permission would be required as it also 
touches their sales of back-issues.

Alexander Klein
3D-Magazin, Editor (http://www.stereoscopy.com/3d-magazin)
Stereoscopy.com, Webmaster (http://www.stereoscopy.com)
NSA European Regional Director (http://www.nsa-3d.org)
ISU Country Representative, Germany (http://www.stereoscopy.com/isu)


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