About "A Taste of Smalltalk"

Jason Rogers jacaetevha at fast-mail.org
Fri Oct 4 15:29:22 UTC 2002


That's a pretty laborious process though.  Is there any good way to
automate the cropping?

I don't know anything about GIMP's command line interface, nor whether
it's really feasible to guess the cropping percentages for a JPEG.  If
the command line allows for some type of batching, it may be easier to
guess at the cropping for a TIFF.

=jason
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  >  Behalf Of Ned Konz
  >  Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 9:12 AM
  >  To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
  >  Subject: Re: About "A Taste of Smalltalk"
  >  
  >  
  >  On Friday 04 October 2002 05:20 am, Stephane Ducasse wrote:
  >  > Hi archeologist and Smalltalk oldies freaks
  >  >
  >  > We with alex started to scan the book "A Taste of 
  >  Smalltalk" (thanks 
  >  > Ted for the rights to do that). However, it takes me 
  >  around 3 min per 
  >  > pages, so I would like to know if somebody want to
  >  > do some postprocessing of the files to see if  we can 
  >  obtain a pdfs
  >  > and at which quality.
  >  
  >  You might want to save the scans as PNG files, since 
  >  they're line art.
  >  
  >  Though the JPGs look good.
  >  
  >  I converted page 17 into a PDF; you can see the result at 
  >  ftp://microship.com/bikenomad/t017.pdf .
  >  
  >  Here's what I did:
  >  
  >  go to Gimp and crop the JPG
  >  print PS to a file
  >  run ps2pdf on that file
  >  
  >  Did you want to try to OCR them? That would reduce the size of the 
  >  PDFs but would require lots more manual work to get the 
  >  fonts right, 
  >  etc.
  >  
  >  -- 
  >  Ned Konz
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