Re: [AISdiscuss] E-memberships

[Terry Aitken <terry@flowerfantasy.net>]

Hi All
Most of our bulletins are on CD's going back about 8 years (Since 
"perfect bind"). There may be problems with obsolete publishing 
programs( IN-DESIGN). Erica is using QUARK-6??. -or some different 
version of Quark for 5 years. I have no idea how compatible these are 
for current recycling. I suspect that text files will be easier to 
salvage than "flattened" picture files. We used ZIP discs for a short 
time before CD's and we have a ZIP drive on the AIS computer mainly to 
deal with advertizers.
I will ask the question of Scott and Erica.
Terry

Loberg wrote:

> Just curious, are many of the past AIS bulletins stored in electronic 
> format, or have they been generated into a .pdf format?
>
> My local town paper has recently started to publish their entire paper 
> on their web page, in .pdf format, in color, at no cost to viewers.  I 
> cancelled my subscription, it sure is nice to not have all the 
> newspaper around the house and bothering to recycle.   I can read the 
> paper on line, and print any page of interest.   Some of the issues 
> are a bit long to download, even with high speed internet, however, I 
> can store any issue if I wish.    How many of you can get their 
> newspapers entirely on line?
>
> More and more publications are going this route.   I don't know how 
> many people would want the AIS bulletin in .pdf format, as I want to 
> keep getting the hard copy in my house, as I have kept all issues as 
> far back as I have received them.   But it sure would be nice to be 
> able to go on line and view any issue I wanted; searching should be 
> faster.
>
> To have this service as a low cost, add on service, or an additional 
> e-membership service, isn't a bad idea.  I think there is a whole lot 
> in the future that we'll be seeing on line.
> Kitty Loberg
> Calif.
>
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