27-03-2013, 11:01 PM
The largest scanner readily available at work is A3 size, so tend to scan in portions at that size. Not too fiddly and actually works quite well then to put into Powerpoint and have a decent screenful at a time if showing to a group.
Could actually use an A4 scanner in portrait mode, but would be pretty fiddly and given the fact that it is good to have a small overlap between adjacent portions of a scan, then each scan would actually not cover much length at all.
When working for Network Rail, the wide scanners for rolled paper and asssociated printers were definitely a luxury, but resultant file size was very large.
Printing of A3 or A4 portions of the IRSE's pdfs can be achieved several ways
1. The Study DVD should already have versions of appropriate size
2. Copy portion to clipboard and paste into photo editing program
3. Use "Prt Scr" key which of course no longer actually "prints screen" but useful to copy into other software when other methods not available.
Could actually use an A4 scanner in portrait mode, but would be pretty fiddly and given the fact that it is good to have a small overlap between adjacent portions of a scan, then each scan would actually not cover much length at all.
When working for Network Rail, the wide scanners for rolled paper and asssociated printers were definitely a luxury, but resultant file size was very large.
Printing of A3 or A4 portions of the IRSE's pdfs can be achieved several ways
1. The Study DVD should already have versions of appropriate size
2. Copy portion to clipboard and paste into photo editing program
3. Use "Prt Scr" key which of course no longer actually "prints screen" but useful to copy into other software when other methods not available.
(27-03-2013, 08:22 PM)merlin89 Wrote: Both for me to have a go at the layout andtoscan in and post.
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