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Sears catalogue 1902
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 4:49 pm
by lenny357
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.

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 5:09 pm
by TM
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

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:10 pm
by Don Luis
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.
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 4:50 am
by lenny357
Here it goes thanks for the help not as clear now but should help some and be interesting for all.
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 12:02 pm
by sunburst
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
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:11 pm
by Rusty1
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
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:19 pm
by MITCH RAPP

Thanks! Lenny, those are Fun to look at.

Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:54 pm
by tank
Great stuff man, thanks!
