My present scheme for finding her magazine columns involves buying the last issue of each year, and hoping that they print an index.
It’s proven successful half the time.
In addition, it seems that the usual practice for a magazine publisher of the period was to repackage the same content for ever so slightly different consumers. Thus, if a library/rare book seller has holes in their collection, there is a chance that this same content is printed elsewhere, in Portuguese, instead of Dutch, or french.
Back when I was heavily involved with real estate transactions, there was an escrow company called “The Escrow Company.” The un-searchable name was no accident; they were awful. The state of California tried, unsuccessfully, to make them change their company name. Didn’t work. They’re still in business, and still awful.
The nice thing about something like WordPerfect or WordStar, as opposed to ‘Word’ is that no one uses WordPerfect in a generic sense. (or in any sense, but such is life)
Okay, I don’t know if this can be done, so here goes:
Here’s another find with absolutely no clue as to where and when the photo was taken and who is in it. I’m guessing it may be relatives, as my great-grandpa Gothro was head sawyer at one of the mills in the Boyne City area in Michigan. But with everyone who would know anything about it being dead, I have little chance of finding out where, when, and who.
Addendum: My Grandpa Gothro was born in 1900, so he’s not one of the men in the photo. I’ve never seen a photo of his father, as far as I can remember.
Tiff is what archives usually end up using. On a lot of scanner software, BMP is a special setting that means-- “I want a black and white image that stores text efficiently”. For a photograph, that’s hardly ideal.
Note that Tiff is quite large, and needs to be converted (usually to JPEG) to be shared on the web. Better to have a high resolution backup lying around so if someone asks for more detail, you don’t have to rescan.
I do a lot of scanning, and should know more about this sort of thing, but my Finesnap SV600 is weird, and doesn’t have all the options.
I feel like there should be an old-style Disney short on this - with the characters named J. Peg, Tiff, Ping, and Bimp - to explain simply the differences between each file type.
So what resolution should I set my scanner for? Sorry about all the questions but I’ve never been asked before to make something clearer from one of my scans.
A PNG-24 is great for quality and doesn’t have the JPEG compression artifacts. BUT, a PNG-8 is limited to 256 colors.
JPEG can actually be fine, if the resolution is at least 300 dpi (I do 600 generally) and if it is set to the highest quality possible (either Maximum, or 10 or 12, depending on the application).
It’s the quality setting / compression that can get you on JPEGs even more than the file format itself.
BMPs are fine for text, but not for photos. TIFs are fine, but would need to be converted for viewing online, and they make me nostalgic for the 90s, and ZIP drives. Don’t waste your time. (Edit: I mean on the TIFs, they are good for archiving if you have the storage space, but I doubt that it’s what will serve you best.)
Thank you so much! You get to write the movie short, lol.
Oh, and the settings I have cover profile, source, color format, file type, resolution, brightness and contrast. HP Deskjet 2540 series is the machine.
I always use PNG because it uses lossless compression and in my opinion handles everything well from simple line drawings, or illustrations with a transparency mask up to complex photos.
BMP and TIFF are older uncompressed formats that don’t generally show up in a browser or some other programs. JPG is lossy compression; it’s usually good enough for photos if scanned at high resolution and saved with a high quality vs. compression selection.
