Look left. The Burda At A Glance Archive is a clickable link to a couple of files containing the At A Glance pages from my (admittedly recent) issues, in a Google Group I set up for this purpose. After I did that, I discovered that Google Group has a 10 Mb file size limit.
The good news is that Kay The Sewing Lawyer has very kindly given me access to her scans - 86 pages of them, including covers, which are nice eye candy. Thank you, Kay! I cheerfully compiled all of them into a single pdf file: 137 Mb! Obviously, this file can't go into the Google Group I set up.
I can shrink it some by: 1. omitting the covers (1/3rd size reduction); 2. converting the colour jpgs to greyscale gifs in Photoshop before compiling the pdf. I've been playing with that, with some success, but Photoshop has a bit of a learning curve, I'm still looking for a way to batch do it to all the tech drawings at once, not one by one. In any event, the file will still be bigger than 10 Mb unless I start splitting it into teeny bites, and that wasn't quite what I intended.
What I'm heading towards now is finding a better, more transparent free file hosting site than the one I tried originally, post my pdf or pdfs there, and re-jig the link at left.
If any of you know of a really good file hosting site with large file size limits, let me know. Like I said originally - a work in progress, and work, life, sewing etc all get a bit in the way of getting it finished.
WOW that is a fantastic idea. I wish I had thought of it:) It is brillaint to have all these pages on a file like this. Thank you for posting it on your blog. It is such a useful way of quickly looking through the magaZines featured patterns....
ReplyDeleteI hope you can get it to work!
ReplyDeleteHi SJM, Flickr allows uploads of 100 MB per month and they have a very neat little desktop program to which you can drag and drop images to upload.
ReplyDeleteHere is a link to a tutorial on using batch processing in Photoshop - like macros in Word:
http://facultysupport.ucdavis.edu/techtips/photoshop/batch_cropping/index.html
(Not affiliated to either!)
Me again! Just realised that you would probably want to upload PDFs, not images... the best option is probably www.box.net free version. It has a 1 GB storage limit and 25 MB limit per file. Also allows you to organise things in folders and even records how many downloads you get. This is where I store my tutorials for download. I hope this helps!
ReplyDeleteTotally cool! I will use this very often. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteDear Ms. SJM,
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for stopping by our Santa Barbara store and sharing your blog with us. It was a pleasure meeting you and your sister-in-law in person! Please encourage her to come in should she need any help with her sewing project.
Enjoy!
Susanne and Pamela