[foh-mail-list]Re: booklet order and planning ahead

[Forrest Carroll]

There are several Adobe products that produce Acrobat (PDF) files.  I 
have used Adobe FrameMaker and Adobe PageMaker in the past.  If we're 
talking about scanning them, there are other ways.  Scanning to text 
is one way, but typically takes some editing after the scans are 
done.  Scanning to pictures I think eventually you can get PDF files 
out of them but I don't know what software might be involved.  Does 
Photoshop produce PDF?  - I just checked and it does.  So we might 
try high-quality scans and put them through Photoshop and make PDF 
files that way.  Or scan into text, edit them, and place as HTML 
files.  HTML files are going to be a lot more accessable to viewers, 
and take much less space on the web server.  I think PDF files would 
be less labor intensive (only because of the post-scanning editing.)

-Forrest

>  > P.S. Lloyd and Devin, what do you propose we do about planning the future
>(at
>>  least next couple of years) for FOH. Forrest and I spoke of using the web
>>  site as a way to pull together what is now a pretty illustrious set of
>past
>>  writings and make them available for the current generation of younger
>families.
>>  This seems good to me.
>>
>>  A selective loading of archives onto the site would be a very positive
>thing
>>  both for the potential audience as well as the info itself, which is
>otherwise
>>  essentially lost to the future. That could be our "third generation"
>project
>>  to keep up with while waiting for some 2nd (parent age) generation people
>to
>>  show up and get active, hopefully.
>>
>>  What do you guys think?
>>
>>  Pete
>
>This is a good idea.  Do we need Acrobat Adobe writer?  Or can we do it with
>HTML?
>
>-Devin