[ILL-L] CONVERTING FILES

[Joe Ellison]

Correction--I haven't tried this for web pages. I use it frequently to
conver color PDFs to tif.

Joe Ellison
Document Delivery and Digital Initiatives Assistant
Transportation Library, Northwestern Univ Library (OCLC = JCR)
1970 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208-2300
voice: 847-491-8600, fax: 847-491-8601
j-ellison at northwestern.edu
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/transportation/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org]
> On Behalf Of Joe Ellison
> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 3:17 PM
> To: 'Interlibrary Loan Listserv'
> Subject: RE: [ILL-L] CONVERTING FILES
> 
> I haven't tried this, but perhaps you could use the Microsoft Office
> Document Image Writer to print them to a file. A while back someone posted
> the following suggestion to retain color in such documents:
> 
> 1. Print to MDI using the MS Office Document Image Writer.
> 2. Document will open in MDI automatically.
> 3. Select Save As and save to tiff format. This will create a multi-page
> tiff that retains color and can be imported into Ariel or Odyssey.
> 
> If color isn't important, you can simply use the MS Document Image Writer
> to
> print to tiff.
> 
> If you have any of the available PDF print utilities (such as Cute PDF or
> Adobe PDF Writer) you can print to PDF, but you'll likely end up with a
> large graphic file whose size you'll then have to reduce in Adobe Acrobat.
> The PDF could then be imported into Ariel. I've had no success in
> importing
> PDF files into Odyssey.
> 
> Joe Ellison
> Document Delivery and Digital Initiatives Assistant
> Transportation Library, Northwestern Univ Library (OCLC = JCR)
> 1970 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208-2300
> voice: 847-491-8600, fax: 847-491-8601
> j-ellison at northwestern.edu
> http://www.library.northwestern.edu/transportation/
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-
> bounces at webjunction.org]
> > On Behalf Of Breedlove, W Stephen
> > Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 2:49 PM
> > To: ill-l at webjunction.org
> > Subject: [ILL-L] CONVERTING FILES
> >
> >
> > Occasionally, when filling requests from online journals, the article
> > needed is a web page or html document.  These can't be converted into
> > TIFFs or PDFs as far as I know.  Besides printing them out and scanning
> > them into Ariel or Odyssey, is there any way to get them into a format,
> > i.e., TIFF, that can be imported into Ariel or Odyssey?  I've tried just
> > sending the article as an email attachment, but I'm afraid the recipient
> > might not be able to read it.  When I send it through Microsoft Outlook
> > Express, the message comes up that if the recipient is on Express, they
> > might not be able to open it.(?)
> >
> > I've tried all kinds of steps to get one of these files into a TIFF.
> Have
> > been able to make one a TEXT, but that loses the graphics from the
> > original file.
> >
> > I'm sure many people have run into this.  Has anyone found a way around
> > it?
> >
> > Stephen Breedlove
> > Reference and Interlibrary Loan Librarian
> > La Salle University Library
> > breedlov at lasalle.edu
> > 215-951-1862
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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