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Post by Registrar on Jun 16, 2021 18:46:17 GMT 8
I've been reluctant to include some of the big files in the Reference Reading feature, because of the sheer size of some of them. The original size of this file, for example, was 151 MB until I located the concept of "compression." I haven't the foggiest how compression and optimization works, but in this instance, it worked a treat and reduced the 151 MB pdf file size to 11 MB. Running it through FlippingPage then increases the size, as it creates additional thumbnail and medium size files, as well as the original (ie reduced size) pdf file. But overall, it's tolerable. What of this document? It is a collection of the daily bulletins from the headquarters of the Harbor Defenses between Jan and May 1942. A cursory read paints a picture that the main efforts of the Army appear to be the generation of paperwork about minutiae. It's a bit like an impressionist painting, where a picture is painted with hundreds and hundreds of relatively small, thin yet visible brush strokes describing ordinary subject matter. What else comes from paperwork about missing laundry and lost highschool class rings? Bigger things, such as a missing Ford Jeep (W-2018096)?No, even bigger things - the recording of life on the Rock and an oncoming death of a society. Along the way, though, a masterpiece of Historic Pointillism has been created. A close reading of this document will reveal a great many treasures.
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Post by chadhill on Jun 16, 2021 21:07:58 GMT 8
I've just begun reviewing these pages and am realizing what a potential gold mine of info exists therein. Many thanks for posting it!
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