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[PSUBS-MAILIST] Format for Busby (was: The Navy Speaks: Busby is Public Domain)
Jonathan Wallace wrote:
> Doug, what format are you planning on scanning the book into?
> Gif or Jpg images won't help us much because they will be huge files
> and frankly I'd be concerned about bandwidth. I have a feeling that if
> the Navy is going to depend upon us for publishing this info, we're
> going to see more access to it electronically than the handful of
> requests they get for hard copies. The best formats would be HTML
> where we could literally build a table of contents for each page, PDF
> format from adobe, and/or DOC format from Microsoft.
If we're going to make suggestions here, I'd like to cast my
vote for PDF.
I downloaded some NACA files, and they were all JPGs. What I
have are reports with graphs, drawings and charts, as well as
text.
When working with DOC format, I've found problems formatting.
(In my daily life, I use WordPerfect.)
Mike