Transactor Magazines
This archive project was started around November 2007. I was viewing some pages from the Transactor magazine archive on Craig Bruce's site when I realized that it should be possible to put the entire magazine together into a single PDF. This would eliminate the need to keep each magazine in its own folder, comprised of dozens of individual image files like JPG or PNG. I didn't like the deficiencies of the existing scans as some are of poor quality and many with skewed pages, so I put out a request for original magazines to scan and start off a new high quality archive.
All of the magazines presented here are of my own scans of original magazines. They contain every page, from cover to cover, including all the advertising. My original intent was to present the PDF's without the covers and ads (except for the front cover), and they would be substantially smaller without the extras. However, they would not be the original magazine anymore. Others have told me that much of the experience in reading the old magazines are the ads.
What I am doing is scanning all the pages to 300 DPI image files, either color TIFF for the color covers and color ad pages, or greyscale TIFF for the black and white and greyscale pages. Typically, each archive of the original scans takes from 150 Mb to over 200 Mb and any defects on the original pages like writing are cleaned up and/or removed before archiving. These files are then converted to color JPG or bitmap b/w TIFF and then rolled into a single PDF. If you want more details on how I made these PDF's, from scanning to PDF'ing, then read this page for all the gory details.
Volume 1
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Volume 1, Issue 1 Thanks to Ernie Chorny of TPUG for the loan of the newsletter. |
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Volume 1, Issue 2 Thanks to Ernie Chorny of TPUG for the loan of the newsletter. |
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Volume 1, Issue 3 Thanks to Ernie Chorny of TPUG for the loan of the newsletter. |
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Volume 1, Issue 4 Thanks to Ernie Chorny of TPUG for the loan of the newsletter. |
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Volume 1, Issue 5 Thanks to Ernie Chorny of TPUG for the loan of the newsletter. |
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Volume 1, Issue 6 Thanks to Ernie Chorny of TPUG for the loan of the newsletter. |
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Volume 1, Issue 7 Thanks to Ernie Chorny of TPUG for the loan of the newsletter. |
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Volume 1, Issue 8 Thanks to Ernie Chorny of TPUG for the loan of the newsletter. |
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Volume 1, Issue 9 Thanks to Ernie Chorny of TPUG for the loan of the newsletter. |
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Volume 1, Issue 10 Thanks to Ernie Chorny of TPUG for the loan of the newsletter. |
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Volume 1, Issue 11 Thanks to Ernie Chorny of TPUG for the loan of the newsletter. |
Volume 4
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Volume 4, Issue 4 Thanks to Adrian Pepper for the loan of this magazine. |
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Volume 4, Issue 5 "Special Reference Issue" Just in point of fact, this was the hardest issue to scan and PDF because of the small point size of the charts. Thanks to Adrian Pepper for the loan of this magazine. |
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Volume 4, Issue 6,
"Basic Construction" Thanks to Adrian Pepper for the loan of this magazine. |
Volume 5
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Volume 5, Issue 1, "Sound and Graphics" Thanks to Adrian Pepper for the loan of this magazine. |
Email the author: Peter Schepers | Last updated: Jan 3, 2010