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From: rspangle@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Froot Loop)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Hercules monitor and posting circuits
Keywords: Vsync, monitors postscript
Message-ID: <9943@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 4 Dec 90 07:26:25 GMT
References: <7032@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <827@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz>
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <827@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> s8824753@mqcomp.mq.oz (David Creelman) writes:
%In article <7032@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> dam@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Mr David Morning) writes:
%%2) I have a number of small one evening circuits that I would like to post
%%if anyone is interested but I don't know what format would be most suited
%%to posting. Some have layouts while others are just track-board. I think
%%I can generate HPGL and Postscript and can generate Pict (for a mac), TIFF
%%and GIFF (wot!! you haven't got a GIFF viewer given the traffic on a.s.p)
%%and may be able to generate other formats. I could also do ASCII for the
%%simple circuits.
%%What's your preference
%%
%%Thanks in advance.
%%
%%Dave
%
%	Maybe you could post some of the simpler circuits as ascii files as 
%you have described above and put the more complex ones out as GIFFS (I think
%your right, everyone has or can get access to a GIFF viewer). I think 
%everyone would appreciate some stuff that can be readily attempted and 
%commented  on. 
%	For the bigger ones I'd say just let them be available by mail so that
%the group doesn't get too clogged up.

I think GIF would be better in almost all cases.  (Even for the really
simple circuits) I don't think the size of the GIF file will be a problem,
even for huge (1280x1024) GIF images, as long as they are B/W only (1 bit
per pixel).  I've seen a number of Anime GIFs (network.ucsd.edu, if you must
know) that are B/W drawings of that size, that are around 16-40 KB long.
Even uuencoded, that's still under 60 KB at worst.  Also, circuit diagrams
tend to be almost all straight black lines and white space, which would
further enhance compression.  

Components and notes should be numbered on the image, and then described in
the accompanying text file.

And YES, I would love to see some circuits posted.  What types of circuits
do you have in mind?

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