Does anybody wanna help me make .pdf's of Amiga magazines?

[JimS]

I've considered this for some time... I decided that scanning at 150dpi was good enough to read the text without making the images too large. I just keep the images for each issue together in a directory structure. I've done some tests, and find that my OCR software doesn't really like the 150dpi scans, so I haven't really bothered to convert to any searchable form. I plan to make a database sometime... maybe. :-)

A friend of mine found a repairable scanner with autofeed. So  I can just cut the spine off with a utility knife and steel ruler. Feed the stack thru once for the even pages, flip over for the odds. I wrote a little visual basic program to renumber the raw files up by 2 or down by 2 to put them in correct order.

My main reason for doing this was to save the space used up by all that paper. 20 CDs take up a lot less space than half a dozen milk crates. :-)

[JimS]

terminator wrote:

Actually it's good to leave the ads in, as they give you an idea of what was available, who was making it, and how much it cost in those days.  People don't remember that an Amiga external floppy cost several hundred dollars new in the late '80s.

I've though that too, but those big ads full of small print translate into large jpegs. So I just kept them once in a while for reference... like once every 6 months or so. Those GVP ads, they were the same from month to month usually. I didn't see the need to keep more than one of each.

Sometimes those ads can tell alot about the time.  I have a videotape with a Ford ad, offering a special deal: buy a truck and they'll give you a 10% interest rate. And a limited time offer too.

I came across an old bank ad on an ancient tape in my collection... offering a 13% interest on a certificate of deposit!