Sears catalogue 1902

lenny357 · Post by **lenny357** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:49 pm

I have 4 scaned pages which are to large to post how can I shrink the size. THey are from the knife section, very interesting and fun reading.

TM · Post by TM » Sat Jan 05, 2008 5:09 pm

hey lenny - open the docs you scanned and resize them - thats the easiest way. If you open the docs with Windows, choose edit, and it should give you the option to resize..... hope this helps. I'd like to see those pages

Don Luis · Post by **Don Luis** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:10 pm

There are many tools available for doing this, IIRC the standard picture viewer in Windows XP allows you to crop and resize and also gives options to reduce the picture for documents, emails and web pages.

If you want something more advanced there is plenty of free software around, in Windows I was using Photofiltre. (I'm using Ubuntu Linux now, their gthumb viewer will do the job just fine).

For viewing in a computer monitor It is a good idea to reduce not only the size but also the jpg compression quality to about 70 or 75.

Luis

PS. By the way, I have that catalog, interesting reading indeed. here's part of page 487.

lenny357 · Post by **lenny357** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 4:50 am

Here it goes thanks for the help not as clear now but should help some and be interesting for all.

sunburst · Post by **sunburst** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 12:02 pm

Hmmm let me see...I will take the pruner knife for $.95 on page one a few of the stockman on page two for $.50 a piece and 10 of the Texas toothpicks on page three...

Thanks for posting these old pages, it sure was fun to look and dream...

Sunburst

Rusty1 · Post by **Rusty1** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:11 pm

Really nice to see these old adverts, thanks for showing them, boy I wish you could still find an original pushbutton knife for .75c

Wow.

Rusty1

MITCH RAPP · Post by **MITCH RAPP** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:19 pm

Thanks! Lenny, those are Fun to look at.

tank · Post by **tank** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:54 pm

Great stuff man, thanks!