Hi all, especially Chris,

At the moment I am still in posession of the OKI printer, it is
sitting here in Essex, so as Chris says is ready for anyone to pick
it up. There is the posibility of Peter coming this way soon and this
may solve the problem.
The printer is not big, but it is heavy. It is not difficuilt to
carry, but you certainly know you are doing so.
An alternative would be to ship the printer but I suspect the
shipping costs might be excessive, so I am treating this as a last
resort.

As to the new editor, I can think of no better person to edit the mag
than the new editor Alan - he has an encyclopedic knowledge of
coracles as well as a wide variety of contacts, many outside the
Society. His one problem is he is not at the moment computer
literate, but this should change as he has just aquired a new laptop.

The ideal solution would be for someone to offer to format and print
the mag. I am happy to give my copy of Page Plus (original and never
registered) to the society (I now have a more recent version).

Do I get the impression you may be volunteering for this Chris?
The actual printing stapling and envelope stuffing I recon took about
a day.

If so I can get Page Plus in the post, and we can worry about
shipping the printer if the problem is not resolved by publication
day.

Dick

PS. As far as I know, there is no OCR program that will recognise
handwriting and the result is always relative to the quality of the
original text and the quality of the scan.In any case some editing is
usually required. A possible alternative could be speech recognition,
but considering my past experiences with this I can't recommend it.







--- In coraclesociety@..., "chris"
<mortimersmiller@...> wrote:
>
> I produced most of my mail order catalogues on an Amstrad PCW 9512
> word processor which cost £500.Prior to that in the early 80s I had
> dabbled with computers by hiring them by the month.I remember doing
a
> massive amount of research on the subjects of colour
> pictures,scanners & ocr software. The latter was £2000 to buy in
> those days.2 grand just for a programme on a disc.Totally out of
the
> question.
>
> When Canon invented the first colour photo copier they did a
massive
> presentation at the Which computer show and were literally stunned
> speachless when I told them I wanted one and how much was it !
After
> considerable farting about a sales person eventually came up with
the
> figure of £1,000,000. There were hundreds of these sales people &
> scantily clad ladies milling about the presentation. Turned out
> they,Canon, had no thought of actually selling their machine. The
> whole presentation was set up to hire it out. 20 years later I`m
> buying an all in one colour copier,scanner & printer for £70.
>
> At the last committee meeting I offered to print the society
magazine
> using the OKI printer.(which,by the way,is still in Essex,waiting
for
> someone going that way to bring it here or at least mile by mile
> nearer)
>
> I do have a primitive desktop publishing programme called
> Select:Desktop Publishing by Focus Multimedia but have struggled to
> use it in the past.Recently in the January 2009 Which? Magazine I
> see I can download free a programme called Scribus so I`m going to
> look into that and try & find my old computer discs that had the
Omni
> Page ocr software on.
>