Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oh, yeah. Not the same puppy. The early version was, as you say, nothing but quick and dirty (I think probably high-speed machine) scans from the mags without any useful indexing or text features, whereas this version is all contained within an Adobe AIR applet. Demo at http://www.completenatgeo.com Quoth the Geoff Hopkinson : > Oh this is different to the original set that I knew about? It has > more than > a rudimentary search? The descriptions reads as though the photos > are higher > resolution now then? The original had a single non-editable lower > resolution > single jpg of each page, that is a scanned image of each page from > memory. > Cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > On 17 February 2010 07:50, R. Clayton McKee <leica at rcmckee.com> > wrote: > > > Quoth the Geoff Hopkinson : > > > > > thousands of them. Imagine what a resource it would be if > re-done in > > > a modern way. > > > > You mean like this? > > > > http://shrunk.net/703656a4-shop.nationalgeographic.com > > > > -- > > R. Clayton McKee > http://www.rcmckee.com > > Photojournalist > rcmckee at rcmckee.com > > P O Box 571900 voice/fax > 713/783-3502 > > Houston, TX 77257-1900 cell number on request > > The only guidebooks worth reading begin with the phrase > > "When you get to the end of the paved road, continue..." > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information -- R. Clayton McKee http://www.rcmckee.com Photojournalist rcmckee at rcmckee.com P O Box 571900 voice/fax 713/783-3502 Houston, TX 77257-1900 cell phone # on request