Dear MCG listers
I hope someone can offer advice. We have a series of exhibition panels,
approx 1 metre square, created for a temporary exhibition. The panels
contain a mixture of 2D objects (sheets of stamps, posters, etc) and
caption cards, all mounted onto backing board. We would like to make the
information in these panels available via our website.
Obviously, we could scan each item from each panel, and recreate the panels
as an online exhibition in that way. That is time-consuming and we are
wondering if there is a different, easier way??
So, does anyone know of an online tool whereby an entire panel could be
digitally captured, and then made available on the net? The only thing I
can think of is taking a picture of the entire panel, and turning that into
a pdf. But, as far as I can see, the initial picture would be a massive
file, and consequently so would the pdf making it unusable online. I
realise you can reduce the resolution of pictures in a pdf to reduce the
file size, but that would make the whole exercise pointless (with stamps in
particualr, the joy in in the detail!).
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Steve
Steve Gardam
Learning and Outreach Officer - The British Postal Museum & Archive
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