Re: using Adobe Acrobat for images

Kurt Foss (mailto:kfoss@ITIS.COM)
Sat, 22 Apr 1995 22:10:46 -0600

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Date:         Sat, 22 Apr 1995 22:10:46 -0600
From: Kurt Foss <mailto:kfoss@ITIS.COM>
Subject:      Re: using Adobe Acrobat for images
To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB

Susan (or Fred!):

A new document imaging and electronic publishing business was featured this week in the our local newspaper (Madison, WI); its services include using the new Acrobat Capture software (announced last week at AIIM '95) to scan hard-copy materials directly into PDF format for storage/distribution on CD-ROM and/or on the Internet. For more details, contact:

Andrew Young-President KNOWLEDGE IN MOTION CD-ROM & Electronic Document Solutions, Adobe Acrobat VAR 7878 Big Sky Drive , Suite D Madison, WI 53719 *** mailto:ayoung@knowinmo.com http://www.fullfeed.com/epub/knowinmo.html 608/829-3454 800/829-2459 FAX 608/829-3561

At 10:40 PM 4/19/95, mailto:imagelib@listserv.arizona.edu wrote:

>Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 23:08:52 -0400
>From: Fred Shippey <mailto:fshippey@EZNET.NET>
>Reply-To: IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@listserv.Arizona.EDU>
>Sender: IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@listserv.Arizona.EDU>
>Subject: using Adobe Acrobat for images
>To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
>
>We're about to start a small imaging project, to scan our local business
>clippings file, about 20 clippings a week from our daily paper. We want
>the clippings to be screen readable and able to print. Right now we will
>only network the server to 2 terminals in our Business Division; in about
>1 1/2 years we will be in a new building where we will have networks and
>can make the images available county wide, probably not on the Internet.
>I've recently been looking at Adobe Acrobat, it has several useful
>features such as ability to link pages and enlarge. Has anyone had
>experience with Acrobat, with black and white bitmapped text images?
>Another possibility is FoxPro as the indexing tool for the images, has
>anyone had experience with FoxPro? Thanks.
> Susan Shippey, Rochester Public Library, Rochester, NY
> e-mail replies to mailto:fshippey@eznet.net

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