Date   : Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:08:07 +0100
From   : bfoley@... (Brian Foley)
Subject: The Micro User

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:20:40PM +0100, Dave Moore wrote:
> I'll take them, as I know someone who is willing to scan in old TMUs (he
> actually has a great track record in scanning old retro mags!).

On a related note, does anyone have any advice on nondestructively
scanning old mags like these?

I've got an almost complete collection of Acorn Users from 1982-1993,
and I'd like to make decent scans of them for archival purposes at
some point.

How do people handle the curvature introduced by perfect binding, and
what file formats/resolutions are regarded as adequate?

I know Al Kossow (at <http://bitsavers.org>) prefers 400 dpi scans
saved nonlosslessly because OCR packages tend not to like the
artifacts introduced by JPEG compression. This would get a bit
unweildy for full colour images though. Is JPEG2000 better in this
regard?

Cheers,
Brian Foley.