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Re: [xmca] Cultural Practices/Activities/etc



Probably good advice re pdf making for all, Tony. This copy was made from a
not-
perfect xerox. I'll try to get the original.

Andy-- You might take another look into umwelt.
mike

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu> wrote:

> Thanks, Mike.
>
> You touch on these things in _Cultural Psychology_, but I'm glad to have
> this piece in which you address this more extensively as the central focus
> of the article.
>
> If I might make a suggestion about PDF files: If you scan the paper
> document in just black-and-white, instead of color or grayscale, and save it
> in a file format that's only two bits deep (instead of 8 or 24), you can use
> that to create a pdf with a much smaller file size. The b/w pdf will also
> work much better for Optical Character Recognition -- whether you do the OCR
> in the pdf that you create, or leave that for users to do for themselves.
> The OCR will be less successful for a pdf that was created from jpeg page
> images.
>
> The process I'm suggesting is basically the same as what you've got, but
> just with a different setting for the initial step.
>
>
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, mike cole wrote:
>
>  Attached is an attempt I made several years ago to summarize the different
>> terms and their uses. It is not in the least sophisticated about many of
>> those cited or not, but it covers some perhaps-useful information.
>> mike
>>
>>
> Tony Whitson
> UD School of Education
> NEWARK  DE  19716
>
> twhitson@udel.edu
> ______________________________**_
>
> "those who fail to reread
>  are obliged to read the same story everywhere"
>                  -- Roland Barthes, S/Z (1970)
>
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