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Re: 2002 Bowditch review
From: Cliff Sojourner
Date: 2002 Nov 11, 10:26 -0800
From: Cliff Sojourner
Date: 2002 Nov 11, 10:26 -0800
Ken, thanks for your reply about this. just wondering, did you or someone at Parcay complain to NIMA about the low-res scanned images in the PDFs? (who would we talk to there?) regards, Cliff -- these are the good old days Cliff Sojourner cls@employees.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Gebhart"To: Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 11:42 Subject: Re: 2002 Bowditch review > To the list, > > Since Cliff opened the door on this one, I feel compelled to respond. He is > correct that some of the photos and diagrams are of questionable quality, but > if he thinks our Paradise Cay/Celestaire edition is bad, he should see the > Government's edition. Most of its photos have severe moire patterns in > addition to the pixillation problems. Its Beaufort photos are vastly inferior > to ours. In producing our book, we went back to previous editions to get the > best photos to scan. We carried forward 60 color diagrams and photos that the > Government dropped the color from altogether, and printed only in black and > white. If and when we do another printing, we will correct the remaining > photos and diagrams to bring them up to a high standard. > > Needless to say, we welcome further comments from any list members. > > Ken Gebhart