[Taxacom] Page size of BHL generated PDFs

[Francisco Borrero]

Hi all,

I am having the same problem as Priyantha. I never had an issue prior to
the new format of BHL; now I can't seem to be able to print a document
normally, even though I have not changed (or chosen) any settings. And I
don't find a way to control it either!

If somebody knows what is the magic fix, please share.
Cheers, Francisco.


             
Francisco J. Borrero, Ph.D.
Manager, Molluscan Types Digitization Project
Academy of Natural Sciences
Drexel University
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19103






On 3/27/13 1:34 PM, "Dilrukshan Wijesinghe" <dpwijesinghe at yahoo.com> wrote:

>No, I am not scanning actual hardcopies, I am simply using BHL's PDF
>generating capability. If you have used this feature you might know that
>you can select a range of pages (for example, a specific paper) from a
>periodical in the BHL collection, e.g. Annals and Magazine of
>Natural History 
>(http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/15774#/summary) and BHL
>will generate a PDF and email you the link for downloading the
>PDF. This is a very useful feature since you can build your own
>collection of PDFs of the older taxonomic literature that might be of
>interest to you. This feature used to work fine before but my recent
>attempts have all 
>resulted in page sizes much larger than the original. Not sure what
>needs to be adjusted on BHL.
>
>Priyantha
> 
>
>D. P. Wijesinghe
>dpwijesinghe at yahoo.com
>
>
>
>________________________________
> From: Steve Halford <halford at sfu.ca>
>To: Dilrukshan Wijesinghe <dpwijesinghe at yahoo.com>
>Cc: "taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 12:35 PM
>Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Page size of BHL generated PDFs
> 
>
> Are you scanning the pages at high resolution?  A higher than necessary
>resolution will result in a page displaying on screen much larger than
>the original.  Usually about 150 dots per inch is sufficient for a clear
>image.
>
>Steve.
>
>
>Steve Halford (halford at sfu.ca)
>Museum Technician 
>Department of Biological Sciences
>Simon Fraser University
>8888 University Drive
>Burnaby, B.C. Canada               Phone
>V5A 1S6                                  778-782-3461
>
>
>On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Dilrukshan Wijesinghe
><dpwijesinghe at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>My recent attempts to make PDFs from journals in the Biodiversiy Heritage
>Library collection have resulted in PDFs with very large page sizes -
>they have to be viewed at about 25-30% or less to appear 'normal'.
>Clearly I must be doing something wrong. Any suggestions for ensuring the
>PDFs generated retain their original page sizes would be appreciated.
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>>Priyantha
>> 
>>
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>>dpwijesinghe at yahoo.com
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