Exam question assistance please

Thanks for the encouragement and constructive criticism Old Duffer. That's a nice warm welcome for a newbie to a newsgroup.

I am in fact trying to learn how to use the new scanner, and a new totally foreign (to me) Operating System at the same time.

I have re-submitted the Answer sheet as an 84K jpg. My apology for its inflated file size, (Your recommendation was 50K) but that is the lowest resolution available on the new scanner. I may be because I scanned it in Grey Scale, but as a Black & White scan, there was almost no image at all, even in higher resolution. Good luck with trying to read it, despite it's huge size. I have no doubt that I will master it one day, given the benefit of your charm and experience. :-)

Cheers, Phill.

Doesn't matter what the scanner does. You can adjust and recompress the picture in any photo manipulation software. Paint Shop Pro for example. I can't actually imagine any scanner coming without something similar bundled with it. Mine certainly did.

I have to say my sentiments basically agree with the poster above though. I took one look at the 7mb filesize and thought bugger downloading that for ages to see a sheet of text which ought to be a few tens of k in size.

Try using the ocr software that you got with your scanner, edit it and save to a file sending it to newsgroup or what you will.

Neil, you just described exactly what I did. It's a Canon scanner, came with MP Navigator, which I used to scan to a file size as close as I could get to Old Duffers recommendation of 50K. Lowest I could get was 84K, which should be better than 50K surely??? Anyway, at 84K I can't read it so I have no idea how it could be readable at 50 K.

Cheers, Phill.

forget the advice in scanning in black and white

Ive had terrible results with that .

despite it being black and white take my word it will scan better in colour

scan colour 300 dpi

then edit the pics in adobe photoshop

press help in adobe ..

drop down menu appears

chose

resize image

f reduce pic in to 650 pixels wide

then save ...

it will then give you a slider ...you can then reduce it down to about

this file then should be pristine and viewable to all .

all the best.mark

That does sound a rather high file size - I (although I use rarely now) think that about 8k for an A4 size page should be all that is needed after editing and saving.

I have tried what Mark suggested and it seems to work better than geyscale to a lower DPI does.....not sure why but thanks Mark.

Can't get anything readable at 8K though Neil....I'll keep experimenting

Cheers, Phill.

Interestingly, having just come back from a weekend in rural Scotland, modern welded tube farm gates don't have any diagonal bracing at all. They seem to get enough stiffness from the welded joints.

Regards, Tony

Scottish farmers being what they are the stiffness doesn't come into it - the cost does:-))