Magazine and Web article section

[Styler4077]

I thought it would be a good idea to set up a section on this forum for magazine and Web articals to help us owners and theses looking to buy in to the FireStorm way of life.

It only needs to be a list of urls and maybe a header of sorts.

Don't know how to sort out a separate section but the admin will.

What do you think?

To start things rolling two links from VisorDown web site

http://www.visordown.com/road-tests-use ... 12028.html

http://www.visordown.com/road-tests-use ... /4309.html

Cheers

Stephen

[Styler4077]

Hummm.....
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Bad idea I suppose?

[Kev L]

I don't think it's a bad idea Styler, I had thought of it before, but how do you get the articles? I looked at the PB article last month but they don't give access to the articles online. I didn't think scanning would give a good enough reproduction, but if one of the forums computer bods can tell me the best way to do it I have a few articles from old mags, original sales brochure etc which I would willingly put on here.

[Wicky]

If you can scan them at a reasonable dpi (at least 200dpi - colour photo) I can process them in Photoshop and make them into PDFs - maybe even extract the text depending on the background using OCR.

Send jpgs (keep at good quality 7 or and don't resize them to me at spaderunner at mac dot com and I'll se what I can rustle up - Send 3 - 4 images in each email as each image will be 2-4 mb each

[Kev L]

Would the result be better if I either sent them to you or dropped them off? My scanner is a Epson print/copy/scan affair.

[Wicky]

The quality depends on the scan - If the quantity of pages is too many to email then it might be easier for me do to as I have a dedicated A4 scanner attached my Mac.

If you do a couple of test scans on Storm related stuff then we'll see if we can establish some baseline settings, then see how how they process at my end.

Would the result be better if I either sent them to you or dropped them off? My scanner is a Epson print/copy/scan affair.

[Kev L]

OK I will have a go.