re: [gutvol-d] one more thing, for jon noring
jon said:
But there was a deadline to finish the first beta of the cleaned-up text, so there was no time to have this done at DP.
this text would fly through d.p. in a matter of hours...
and found over 200 differences
but my comparison shows that most of those are minor, to the point of total insignificance to the average reader. when the focus is narrowed to meaningful differences, the number is less than 20. it is good to correct them -- and the less-significant ones too -- very good, but this is hardly a good example of an error-ridden e-text.
Unfortunately, since the 120-dpi scans are antialiased greyscale (while the 600 dpi are bitonal), the size difference is surprisingly not that different. I updated the My Antonio index page to include downloading all the 120-dpi scans in a ZIP file, which is still over 30 megs in size:
the .pngs on the website would seem to be much smaller. roughly 400 of those, at about 20k each, would be 8 megs. is my arithmetic wrong? or am i missing something? -bowerbird
Bowerbird wrote:
jon said:
But there was a deadline to finish the first beta of the cleaned-up text, so there was no time to have this done at DP.
this text would fly through d.p. in a matter of hours...
Well, yes, once it's been put in the queue. Anyone here from DP care to comment on typical times for a book to be proofed in the DP system? (I would have been happy to contribute to the post-processing markup stage.) (Btw, I finished the XHTML before I even finished the scanning, so it would have been delayed in the DP system anyway. But yet, I would have preferred the job be done in the DP system. At this stage it probably won't fit into their work flow.)
Unfortunately, since the 120-dpi scans are antialiased greyscale (while the 600 dpi are bitonal), the size difference is surprisingly not that different. I updated the My Antonio index page to include downloading all the 120-dpi scans in a ZIP file, which is still over 30 megs in size:
the .pngs on the website would seem to be much smaller. roughly 400 of those, at about 20k each, would be 8 megs. is my arithmetic wrong? or am i missing something?
Most of the PNGs are in the 70-80k range (I just rechecked at the online site to make sure something weird didn't happen.) So the 30+ MBytes for the 400+ scans at 120 dpi greyscale/antialiased is about right. Let me know if you want me to snail-mail the scans on CD-ROM. Jon
Jon Noring wrote:
Well, yes, once it's been put in the queue. Anyone here from DP care to comment on typical times for a book to be proofed in the DP system? (I would have been happy to contribute to the post-processing markup stage.)
This depends greatly on which queue it gets put in. English-language novels tend to go quickly. If they qualify for the "easy" queue, they spend little time queuing, and often complete proofreading within a few days. Complex texts on "dry" subjects might spend a few weeks queueing, and then require several weeks to go through the proofreading rounds. -- RS
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