But Ted has the ascii files so there is not need to retype them, I just 
have other books for which I
do not have text. (and not the time to reproduce a book)

Stef


On samedi, octobre 5, 2002, at 02:29  am, Russell Penney wrote:

> Ok time for me to stop just lurking.
>
> Why don't you put all the scanned jpegs on a swiki? I have no problem
> when I have a spare 10 minutes retyping a page in, other people can
> proof read my effort and make changes. If enough people take a couple 
> of
> pages each it should be done in no time ( I have NO idea how many pages
> there are, I am being optimistic :-)
>
> Then turn it into a PDF, much smaller than bitmaps.
>
> Russell
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Jason
> Rogers
> Sent: Saturday, 5 October 2002 6:49 AM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: RE: About "A Taste of Smalltalk"
>
> Great!  Count me out... :)
>
> =jason
> [:question | ^One]
>
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>>  [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On
>>  Behalf Of Bert Freudenberg
>>  Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 3:57 PM
>>  To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>>  Subject: RE: About "A Taste of Smalltalk"
>>
>>
>>  On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Jason Rogers wrote:
>>
>>> That's a pretty laborious process though.  Is there any
>>  good way to
>>> automate the cropping?
>>
>>  Of course. I use pnmtools all the time. They do an
>>  incredible job at this kind of stuff. Typing a command
>>  line to convert some images takes a lot less time than to
>>  start The Gimp, at least on my machine. Here's a simple
>>  command line to convert all jpeg images in a directory to
>>  postscript, converting everything to pure black/white (to
>>  save space) and cropping 100 pixels around:
>>
>>  for f in *.jpg ; do djpeg $f|ppmtopgm|pgmtopbm
>>  -threshold|pnmcut -left 100 -right -100 -top 100 -bottom
>>  -100 | pnmtops -noturn >
>>  `basename $f .jpg`.ps ; done
>>
>>  You could throw in some other nifty stuff like (-scale option for
>>  pnmtops), automatic removal of all white border (pnmcrop).
>>
>>  This can also easily be followed by
>>
>>  	cat *.ps > t.ps
>>  	ps2pdf t.ps
>>
>>  Doing this for t000.jpg to t028.jpg (downloaded per wget)
>>  results in a 1 MB PDF, which is not too bad at 30 k/page,
>>  IMO. See http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~bert/t.pdf
>>
>>  -- Bert
>>
>>
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