[ILL-L] Converting pdf to tif for Odyssey or Ariel delivery

[joseph augustin]

Amazing (and a little surreal)!
I noticed the "import" button in Ariel for the very first time just a
few minutes before I saw your post.

Thanks!
     ~Joe


On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Kathy Britt <kbritt at emory.edu> wrote:
> I've had several questions about this, so I thought I'd share it with
> everyone.  Thanks to Brian Miller at OSU for helping me figure this out at
> the last ILLiad conference!
>
> It's easy...first, make sure that your ejournal license allows ILL sharing.
>   * When you have the .pdf open, just click on the printer icon within
>     the .pdf (not the browser printer).   * You should have an option of
> printing to the "Microsoft Office
>     Document Image Writer."  Choose that printer, and then click OK.   * You
> will then get a save screen, where you can select where you
>     want to save the file.  I have created 2 files, one for Odyssey on
>     my desktop ("Odyssey tif") and one for Ariel on a shared drive
>     ("Ariel tif").  I put the Ariel one on a shared drive because
>     Ariel is not on my computer since it has it's own workstation.
> Saving to a shared drive allows us to access the saved file from
>     the Ariel computer.   * Save the file using whatever name you want to
> use.  We have chosen
>     to save the file using our ILLiad TN.  We have found that with
>     Ariel if we use the ILL number Ariel doesn't like it for some
>     reason and will reject the import.
>   * Once you have created the .tif file, you can import the file into
>     either Odyssey or Ariel
>
>
> We do a similar thing with microform scans, but instead of saving the file
> to our desktop or shared file, we save the file to a portable flash drive.
>  When we return to the ILL office, we import the .tif file from the flash
> drive into either Odyssey or Ariel.
>
> For emails, we just send the .pdf directly without doing the .tif conversion
> first.
>
> Important last step:  once the article is sent via Ariel, Odyssey or Email,
> it is VERY IMPORTANT to delete the file from your computer.  Maintaining
> multiple copies of an ejournal article is a copyright violation.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Kathy
> PS  We tried doing the conversion within Acrobat, but the .tif file it
> created was not a multi-page .tif.  Acrobat wanted to save each page as a
> separate file, which didn't work for our purposes.
>
> West, Mary Ellen wrote:
>>
>> Good Morning and Happy 4^th of July (almost)
>>
>>
>> I have a question.
>>
>> What is your process for converting e-journals for import into Ariel or
>> Odyssey?
>>
>>
>> We are experimenting with converting and importing here and are looking
>> into various ways of making this process as
>>
>> Easy as possible.
>>
>>
>> Thank you for taking the time to share
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
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Joe Augustin
Interlibrary Loan & E-Serials
Earlham College (IEC)
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