Friends,
Permit me to clarify a bit what I wrote earlier.:
I lay the film across the glass of the flatbed, scan the images
visible at 1200 dpi, and save them as ~.tif files. When I want to
view an image, I change the dpi from 1200 to a different figure, and
the images are a workable size.
I take the microfilm image scanned at 1200 dpi, of an image which is
about 1 inch by 3/4 of an inch, and change the dpi from 1200 to 150.
This results in a tif file which displays as 8 by 6 inches, readable on
a computer screen, and if need be, when I import the image into my image
manipulation program of choice (happens to be GIMP), I can increase the
size of the image by scaling.
The only reason I can think of that this would not work with your
pocket score, is binding. If your score is perfect bound (which I
think is the term used in the bookbinding trade in the U.S.), it will
lay flat, and you will have problems with this method.
As I understand it, perfect binding is where the pages are trimmed, and
glued together, the method used to produce pocket sized paper back
books. Better quality books of small number of pages are often saddle
bound, with a number of double leaves folded, and stapled in the gutter
of the fold. Still better, and longer books are folded, stitched along
the fold, and multiple gatherings bound. Because the individual leaves
are glued, perfect bound books cannot be made to lay flat face down,
without breaking the glue. Better luck can be had scanning books which
are saddle bound, or which consist of multiple gatherings; even so, I
suspect it's not really very good on the bindings.
ns
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