On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 15:23:56 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
> J. J. Young wrote:
>> >I think the reason why web sites make these PDF documents available
>> >is that they want to include pictures and diagrams and graphs.
>> True, but they also want to control the printed layout, and their
>> designers have been sucked into the Adobe way.
> In a local situation, we have dealt with the above issue in a very simple
> manner: 1) Create the page layout you want the viewer to see
> 2)Take a screenshot to BMP it.
> 3)ZBM it.
> This is fast, effective, cheap, pretty much universal, and takes no more
> bandwidth than the typical .pdf. <g>
I'll bet you "dollars to doughnuts" that the .ZBM will take
much less bandwidth.
Let's test it.<g>
Visit http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm and grab a copy
of each of these....
western.pdf 119190 bytes (the original .PDF)
western.zbm 32307 bytes (screen-cap of the PDF after converting to
_ BMPs with GhostScript/PDF2HTM.bat and viewed
_ in Arachne)(screen-cap made with Cntrl+P)
wstrn-ar.zbm 22950 bytes (screen-cap of my W95 desktop while
_ viewing the PDF with Arcrobat Reader v4.05)
BTW,
For those who might not have heard of the "Clarence Verge invention"....
A .ZBM is simply a .ZIP file which contains a single .BMP file of the
same name.
So,
western.zbm is a ZIP file containing only western.bmp (3,105,390 bytes)
wstrn-ar.zbm is a ZIP file containing only wstrn-ar.bmp (1,440,054 bytes)
BTW2,
Angelfire still has not added the correct "content-type" to their server
setup. So, both .ZBMs will be sent as "text/plain".
(if you would rather not do the "work-around" to fix this little
problem.... grab the .ZIP files instead and unzip them manually)
BTW3,
I am sending yet another request to Angelfire.
(at the bottom of this message is proof that they got my message)<VBG>
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>Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 19:04:37 -0500
>From: "Glenn McCorkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: (OT) ZBMs.....
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___________________________________________________
Please eMail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have any
questions about this suggestion.
ZBMs are simply .ZIP files which contain a single .BMP
By adding the mime-type "image/x-zbitmap zbm" to
your /etc/mime.types file.... we can automatically unzip
the downloaded .ZBM into its original .BMP file so that
this .BMP can be viewed.
For an examp[le of the HUGE bandwidth savings...
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/crapserv.jpg (231kb)
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/crapserv.zbm (54kb)
I also have several other .ZBM files here......
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
Thank you for your consideration,
Glenn McCorkle
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>From: Clarence Verge
>Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 14:40:14 -0800
Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>
> BTW,
> You'll need this line at the top of mime.cfg to auto-view the ZBM
>
> text/plain >BMP|[150]md $a\\zbm \n pkunzip -o $1 $azbm \n
> copy /b $azbm\\*.bmp $2 \n del $azbm\\*.bmp
>
> (stitch back together as a single line in mime.cfg)
Glenn, you will be pleased to know that arachne.cz now supports .ZBM as
a standard mime type. This now makes at least two servers in the known
world.
As you regularly put up .ZBMs and frighten the users away with the above
change to MIME.cfg, <G> I can now provide you, and any others interested,
with the following information and suggestion to pass on to your ISP.
Ask them to please add the following line to their Linux file
/etc/mime.types
image/x-zbitmap zbm
I hope we can get a few more converts. ;-)
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Glenn
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http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/download.htm
