If we are going to offer an e-membership I would
assume that the articles of the current bulletin would
appear there during the quarter that that bulletin is
active. I dont think the bulletin could possibly be
one file, but a file for each article. I would assume
that such an arrangement would add considerably to the
work of a web-master and that it may incur additional
server costs. I believe a web membership should
provide something similar to a print subscription
membership with other possible options that might
attract members. I would not expect our present staff
to do this alone, or without compensation. A virtual
member might be lower cost to service, but not without
cost. We need to think about what we would want to
provide and how much it would cost to service this.
Just like the online registry there are immense
opportunities here, but nothing is totally free. I
would think if we do our job well, regular members
might want to pay extra, to be virtual members also.
Although I would expect considerable overlap. I do not
think we should think in terms of just replacing one
with the other.
--- John I Jones <jijones@usjoneses.com> wrote:
If you are talking about a specific bulletin, I am
not sure that it is
ever assembled in a single program file. It may be
that it is laid out
in Quark with space reserved for the pictures. Then
once it is ripped
and paged out for the press, that the pictures are
added. I don't know,
but we can find out.
My understanding is that each Bulletin edition takes
up two CDs. That
means that it could be as much as 1.4 Gigabytes.
Anyone interested in
downloading a PDF that big? Remember that for print
the minimum
resolution is 300dpi. That means that a 4 X 4
picture is about 2.5
Megabytes.
Sure we can break it into separate articles fit the
graphics, lower the
resolution of the pictures and create "PDF pieces",
but who is going to
do that?
I am not trying to be negative, but some things,
even with todays'
computer techniques, are just not there yet.
I really hope I am wrong about this.
John
On Mar 30, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Robt R Pries wrote:
I would suggest that articles, bulletins etc, be
available so that they can be read by adobe reader
on
the user end. It seems to be the standard for web
info
and the reader is automatically download once and
fro
then you can read most sites. Since Quark is owned
by
Adobe conversion should be easy.In-Design is newr
but
I would bet Adobe reader compatible.
--- 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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