[Aavso-photometry] Mentoring for your 0.5 meter Cass

[Chuck Pullen]

Hi David - I've gotten several requests, but it turns out someone at  
HQ beat me to it.  They are on the AAVSO web site already at:

<http://www.aavso.org/observing/programs/ccd/standards/charts/>

in both the Postscript as well as PDF formats.

There is software for Windows to allow you to view and print  
Postscript files.  PS is pretty much the default format for many  
archived files and papers that originate from UNIX systems.  Often,  
these documents are only available as PS.  Luckily, there are PS  
converter programs for Windows for low or no cost.  One is GS/View,  
which works in the Ghostscript environment.  See <http:// 
www.ghostscript.com/awki>.  As I remember from my early days as a  
Windoze user, you download and install the Windows ghostscript exe  
then do the same with GS/view.  When you click on a ps file, it opens  
in GS/View and you can then convert it to a .gif, .png, .jpg, .png  
and several other graphic formats to save for future use or to import  
into other software like MS-Word.  But by all means use the  
instructions!

However, I have seen the Light and now have the best of both UNIX and  
Microsoft worlds with a Mac using OS-X .  Click on the PS file and it  
automatically converts and displays as a PDF. On the 8th day of  
creation, God created the Mac... :-)

Chuck

On Jan 1, 2008, at 1:40 PM, David Trowbridge wrote:

> Chuck,
>
> PDF versions of the Landolt files would be extremely useful to many  
> of us, I
> believe. I'm on Windows XP, with Adobe Acrobat and Paint Shop Pro, but
> neither program can open these postscript files. I'm not sure what  
> I would
> need to use to open them.
>
> If you are willing to take the time to make PDF files, could you  
> either put
> them up on the AAVSO site, or maybe copy me with e-mail attachments  
> when you
> send them to Derek?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> David Trowbridge
> David at tinyblue.com
>