Re: [AISdiscuss] E-memberships

[Robt R Pries <rpries@sbcglobal.net>]

It may be iseful to create a policy to convert all
archived material to a current format each year.
failing to do so may ultimately result in those CD's
being useless unless someone has the old program to
run them on.

--- Terry Aitken <terry@flowerfantasy.net> wrote:

> 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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