Robert Fabris, the publisher of the Arcadian, granted me permission on February 14, 2001 to post all issues. I have the complete collection from 1978 through August 15, 1986. I will be adding them to this site as I scan them in. Please be patient, it takes time.
Here are the steps I take to get the Arcadian newsletters (and all other documents) to you. I scan them in at 300DPI using an HP Scanjet 6100C flatbed scanner. Then I use Photoshop to clean up images. Issues with hand-written notes need the most work, currently I have been re-typing what is hand-written so that it is readable. It takes time. When I am through, I add volume, issue and page numbers to the bottom of each page. I save them as 2-bit TIFF images that are about 1 megabyte each. If there are any pages that are very hard to read (the Zgrass article in volume 1, issue 2, for instance), then I retype them using Word. I print the Word documents to a Postscript file and use Adobe Distiller to convert the Postscript file to PDF. Finally, I import the TIFF images and any PDF files (created previously with Distiller) into Adobe Exchange. Notice that the 8 megabytes worth of TIFF files are now a file that is about 400K. We now have a completed PDF that I upload to Bally Alley for everyone to enjoy.
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