Kitplanes Articles -- Volunteer?

[RST Engineering]

I have about three or four years of my monthly Kitplanes columns that have
not been posted on my website for you all to use. I used to post them every
month, but with dialup it was taking me (literally) hours to cut, paste,
upload, resume ... for each article. I also had a wonderful volunteer that
I could send the whole kaboodle and then get the kaboodle back modified and
ready to upload, but that, too, was taking forever on dialup.

So Gail and I sprung for satellite broadband and got it just in time for the
semester to start and my editor time is very limited.

Short of the long of it is that I'd like a volunteer to take all the crap in
the kaboodle (fuzzy photos, nonessential or supplemental files, and all the
rest of the stuff it takes to do a monthly article) and edit it, prepare it
for upload to my web page, change the index file on the home page to reflect
the new page(s), and everything needed to put month after month of back
articles on the web page.

One of the benefits is that you get columns four to six months before they
appear in print -- I just sent the December column a couple of weeks ago.

Of course, once this all comes to pass with the back issues, it will settle
down to a dull roar once a month.

Jim

[john smith]

Is this in scannable paper form, or does one require specific software
to view and edit?
Depending on your needs, I may be able to assist.


Colonel, WBAF HQ

[RST Engineering]

The text files are in .doc format. The images are in .jpg format.

Jim




"john smith" > wrote in message
...
> Is this in scannable paper form, or does one require specific software
> to view and edit?
> Depending on your needs, I may be able to assist.
>
>
> Colonel, WBAF HQ

[Grumman-581[_1_]]

On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:16:24 -0700, "RST Engineering"
> wrote:
> The text files are in .doc format. The images are in .jpg format.

You could very quickly put them up in PDF format...

[John Godwin]

Grumman-581 > wrote in
:

> You could very quickly put them up in PDF format...

You can also insert .jpg files into word documents.

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[Grumman-581[_1_]]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:33:25 -0000, John Godwin
> wrote:
> You can also insert .jpg files into word documents.

I was assuming that the JPEG files were already in the MS-Word
documents... Converting them to PDF is very simple... Download and
install the freeware CutePDF to your machine... Bring up the document
in MS-Word and print to the "CutePDF" pseudo-printer... It will prompt
you for a file name... End result is you have a file that you can pass
around, but someone can't easily modify it... A little more overhead
than just an HTML page with the JPEG images in it, but usually not an
extraordinary amount of overhead...

[Jose[_1_]]

> You can also insert .jpg files into word documents.

.... but that bloats the file size.

Jose
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[John Godwin]

Jose > wrote in news:jHQGg.14234$9T3.12224
@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net:

>> You can also insert .jpg files into word documents.
>
> ... but that bloats the file size.

with the addition of the .jpg, naturally it will increase the file
size.

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[RST Engineering]

I guess I wasn't too elaborative. Anybody that writes/publishes knows that
for each decent picture there are ten that are out of focus, poor lighting,
subject moved, housefly sat on the target just as the camera went off, dog
jiggled the photographer, and all the rest of it. You save them all because
maybe someday one of them will tell you something that the "good" ones
didn't capture.

THere may be five revisions to the schematic.

THere may be five revisions to the article itself, plus an addendum "oopsie"
page that gets written when a reader finds a blunder.

THere are comment text files that identify each photo, junk files that were
an intermediate step between two files, and a whole lot of crap that I quite
frankly don't have the time to sort through to post free articles for
download.

An editor sorts through the crap to find the good stuff.

Now that you've found the good stuff you need to make an html page to
pointer them and an index file to get to them. You need to make thumbnails
of all the images so that the reader doesn't have to download the whole mess
just to get one image (s)he needs.

Then you need to upload it and test it for each link to make sure you didn't
spel won rong or accidentaly caPitalize something that would break the link.

If you don't believe me, ask Jay what a PITA it is to maintain a decent free
web page, not to mention paying a service charge monthly for the bandwidth.

Now do you understand?

Jim



"Grumman-581" > wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 20:16:24 -0700, "RST Engineering"
> > wrote:
>> The text files are in .doc format. The images are in .jpg format.
>
> You could very quickly put them up in PDF format...

[Jose[_1_]]

> with the addition of the .jpg, naturally it will increase the file
> size.

My experience is that adding a 30K JPG increases the file size of a word
document by something like 600K. I have no idea why, but this is
typical for Microsoft Word. I once had a Christmas letter I made - two
pages, ten pictures, it was too big to send to Microsoft itself.

Jose
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for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

[Peter Duniho]

"Jose" > wrote in message
et...
>> with the addition of the .jpg, naturally it will increase the file size.
>
> My experience is that adding a 30K JPG increases the file size of a word
> document by something like 600K. I have no idea why, but this is typical
> for Microsoft Word.

I disagree that it is typical generally. I use embedded images in Word all
the time, and see no such bloat.

The expansion you're seeing could happen if for some reason the uncompressed
image was saved instead of the original JPEG data. Why your particular
instance of Word is doing this, I don't know...perhaps you're inserting the
image through a copy-paste operation from some other application, where Word
doesn't have access to the original JPEG data? But I can assure you that
normally, adding a JPEG file to a Word document doesn't involve an increase
in the file size beyond the actual size of the file.

Pete

[John Godwin]

Jose > wrote in
et:

> My experience is that adding a 30K JPG increases the file size of
> a word document by something like 600K. I have no idea why, but
> this is typical for Microsoft Word. I once had a Christmas letter
> I made - two pages, ten pictures, it was too big to send to
> Microsoft itself.

I don't know what version of MS Word you're using but my experiences
with imbedded images shows a slight bump over the image size (but a
factor of 20? ... never happened).

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[Ross Richardson[_2_]]

Jose wrote:

>> with the addition of the .jpg, naturally it will increase the file size.
>
>
> My experience is that adding a 30K JPG increases the file size of a
> word document by something like 600K. I have no idea why, but this is
> typical for Microsoft Word. I once had a Christmas letter I made -
> two pages, ten pictures, it was too big to send to Microsoft itself.
>
> Jose

I found that you should not do any editing of a .jpg in the word
document. The file size will increase greatly. Get the .jpg like you
want it first. Also, in MSWord, turn off Allow Fast Saves under
Tools/Options. That increases file sizes.. I write a EAA newsletter and
found this out the hard way.

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Regards, Ross
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