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Saturday, July 02, 2005

Genealogy 

I scanned this letter, which does not look like an e-mail, and I'm not sure why I thought it was. Hopefully, this will not be too hard to read; try to download it and make it bigger. I tried to scan it at higher resolution, but that did not help at all. Any computer pros out there have tips? Also, for anyone interested, I'm working on a family genealogy. I'd like to be able to put it on the web, to make it accessible to everyone, and modifiable, so it really is a complete FAMILY history. If anyone wants to take part in that, let me know. Maybe that'll be the push I need to get it a little more complete and online. These first two scans are the letter attached, and the second two are the genealogy.
// posted by Emily @ 7/02/2005 09:22:00 AM   [ 4 Comments ]  Click here to add your 2 cents!
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Was Jan Stipkala born in 1888 or 1884? I think two dates may be given. I'm trying to put this on geneology.org so everyone can access it.
posted by Blogger Karen : 7/03/2005 10:42:00 AM   
Never mind, figured it out.
posted by Blogger Karen : 7/03/2005 02:51:00 PM   
Monitor's display stuff at 72 DPI (or 96 for WinXP or 120 for large fonts).

If you scan at a higher DPI the image will be enormous and you'll have to scale it down to fit on the screen. If you scan an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper at 72 DPI it will be 612 x 792 pixels, which is less than full screen for most monitors.

I would try a 72 DPI scan, which should be 1:1 when viewed on the monitor. Or I might try about 120 DPI for a 'large' version, which allows people to sroll the image and get large text. If you scan any higher, you're just going to discard it to get a good image size for the screen.

Now, printing is a different story because printers are typically 600 to 1200 DPI and can make use of the extra pixels and file size.
posted by Blogger Cauthon : 7/04/2005 01:03:00 PM   
Thanks, Mike, that's exactly what I needed to know. If anyone can't read the stuff I posted, or get the data you need, let me know. I'll try to re-scan at 72 DPI.

The only scanning I've done is of archival photos, which is a very different process, I'm learning. It's weird, I thought that higher DPI would automatically mean a clearer image, but that doesn't work with text on the monitor at all. Maybe I'll try printing my 1200 DPI scans and see how that comes out. :)
posted by Blogger Emily : 7/04/2005 01:51:00 PM   
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