[offer] Microsoft Chart v2.02 manual

callmejack

Here is a scan of Microsoft chart v2.02 manual, which was missing on winworldpc

https://mega.nz/file/SSwCwY7a#5GoFqtoZfspm4V76rMWztqtJ26wneOy7KPgrZY_QVqY

johnlennon364

Thanks You @callmejack Do You have complete version Microsoft Chart 2.02 Floppy Disks. The one on WinWorld incomplete does not come with Mouse.

tarlabnor

You guys might take a look here:
https://archive.org/download/microsoft-chart

It's a complete copy of MS Chart 2.02z (seems to be EN-UK version). Also it would be interesting to compare it's manual with the one uploaded by @callmejack. Though converting huge JXL files will be a big PITA

johnlennon364

@tarlabnor Thanks How you convert JXL files to IMG and PDF do you know?

callmejack

wow, 24GB of data !
it's a waste of precious storage resource on archive.org, they should have archived the manual in pdf format instead.

callmejack

Here is the scan of the 2 disks. I didn't see any file that would be related to mouse drivers and didn't see any mention of mouse in the manual.

https://mega.nz/file/XLpXkZxa#40jnCryXgk4ikeDStwMNVBR7It0kAM9X5da5LCza56w

tarlabnor

Thank you !

And here's the version 2.02z from archive.org to compare (without manual). It's a bit different.
https://disk.yandex.ru/d/1Kb28c-CUgy4WA

johnlennon364

Thank You @callmejack and @tarlabnor Now we complete of Microsoft Chart 2.02

SomeGuy

Preservation means nothing if the results are not accessible. 24GB is not something everyone can just download, easily store, or share. Oddball formats that nothing supports make the content useless.

This is why we package things lightly on Winworld - no huge uncompressed TIFs or bizarre formats. There are even DOS programs that can decompress JPG (although size becomes an issue).

There is usually no need to "preserve" every grain of a paper page. Color reduce from millions to thousands of colors, or gray scale if none. Adjust the contrast so the background is solid white, and suddenly lossless PNG files shrink down very well.

Kind of have to hold your nose for PDF, but I usually try to make sure PFDs published here are not locked in to the latest Acrobat Reader.

callmejack

@SomeGuy totally agree with you.
For scans of manuals I personally prefer pdf over individual pages in PNG (or any other image format) because you can quickly browse through pages and do text search (given of course it was OCR’d).
Which version of PDF would you recommend for backward compatibility?

SomeGuy

My general rule of thumb is that PDFs should be viewable, with or without warning messages, in Acrobat Reader 5.0.5 (The last for Windows 95). In theory, this also helps ensure that more third party PDF readers can open the document.

tarlabnor

Preservation means nothing if the results are not accessible. 24GB is not something everyone can just download, easily store, or share. Oddball formats that nothing supports make the content useless.

Agreed. Scanning manual in insane resolution and saving it in exotic gfx format is just a waste of time, disk space and efforts. I doubt anyone will download 24 Gb of data and convert it to something more usable.