Kitplanes Articles -- Volunteer?

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

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

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

Jim




"john smith" wrote in message
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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

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...

Grumman-581 wrote in
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You could very quickly put them up in PDF format...

You can also insert .jpg files into word documents.

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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...

You can also insert .jpg files into word documents.

.... but that bloats the file size.

Jose
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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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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
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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...

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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The monkey turns the crank and thinks he's making the music.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.