RE: [MV] Convert Military manuals to .pdf

From: paul carrier (paulc@teleport.com)
Date: Sun May 01 2005 - 19:35:38 PDT


US government pubs are free of that problem

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
-> Behalf Of Nigel Hay -MILWEB
-> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 9:47 PM
-> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
-> Subject: Re: [MV] Convert Military manuals to .pdf
->
->
-> What are the copyright implications?
->
-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
-> Behalf Of Mil-Veh Co.
-> Sent: 05 January 2005 18:40
-> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
-> Subject: Re: [MV] Convert Military manuals to .pdf
->
->
-> We do this all the time. In some cases we use a
-> flatbed scanner with reader software and then scan the
-> original manual. We reduce it all into a digital
-> format which then goes to the hard drive and later it
-> is converted into .pdf format which most folks can
-> read and burned onto a large CD with a custom lable.
->
-> Example: We sell CD's with virtually every manual
-> known to mankind for the M35 series. We sell them so
-> cheap its hardly worth your time to try to download it
-> all, even if you could. There's a lot to download and
-> without a highspeed connection, it takes forever..even
-> with it all those files take a long time. The last 3
-> went for $9 on ebay.
->
-> I'm working on doing the M151 in .pdf next. About
-> half way done.
->
->
->
-> --- EUGENE PANTANO <TRUKS1@msn.com> wrote:
->
-> >
-> > Subject: Re: [MV] Need to convert Military manuals
-> > to digital format
-> > I went through this yesterday.. here is what I
-> > did..
-> > I downloaded the manual..stored it in a file on my
-> > pc.. Then sent it to the
-> > burner and made a disc. Took less than 4 minutes
-> > total on my pc...
-> > Then I can read it off the disc..or print it out
-> > onto paper for hard
-> > copies.. Very simple...
-> > Gene
-> >
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