User talk:Rlan

ay up

manual scanning isn't really my bag but I think we're trying to separate pages. There's a tool: http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=30944 though you might need to ask for it since the link is dead. There'll be answers to the variable PDF page size thing too.

Also the file naming scheme for scans is "<name> <console> <region> <type>.whatever", e.g. "Bubsy MD US Manual.pdf" or words to that effect. Just because there's a lot of stuff and it might otherwise cause confusion down the line. But lovely job otherwise -Black Squirrel (talk) 10:31, 12 May 2014 (CDT)

If its not against the rules, i can cut this scans and reupload them then i return home. I will do this for my manuals collection anyway. -Depressor (talk) 06:27, 8 September 2014 (CDT)

eeeswat

There's a book that needs tracking down, which might save you the trouble of cropping out bits of cover art:

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"Sega TV Game Genga Gallery" or "Sega Video Game Illustrations" or whatever it wants to be called today (it hasn't got a page on this wiki because I genuinely don't know what it's meant to be called). It's the only source I know of that has clean, high resolution versions of early 90s Sega cover art (including the MD ESWAT), but nobody willing to scan it owns a copy. Might be of interest?

The other really important thing about this book is that it actually tells us who the artists were, which in turn might lead us to better versions hosted online. It sometimes happens! -Black Squirrel (talk) 07:08, 18 October 2014 (CDT)

png scans

Scans like these don't need transparency - trying to crop out all the white space by hand is time consuming and it doesn't really achieve much - you'd be better off leaving the white background from the scanner and uploading as a JPEG (although obviously it needs to be cropped to some degree so we don't have massive white borders). Because it's a PNG the file size is bumped up to 61MB, but it's a bit pointless to use lossless compression in this situation as the scanner is never going to lead to a super duper perfect image. -Black Squirrel (talk) 05:30, 7 January 2015 (CST)

pamphlet PDF

I think it's just generating that error because the dimensions are big. ~12,000 rows of pixels seems to be using more memory than what the thumbnail generator is equipped to deal with

I wouldn't worry though - it's a problem with MediaWiki, not the file itself -Black Squirrel (talk) 12:39, 5 October 2015 (CDT)