Hi Sue The Archives seem to be scanning some at a low resolution as you have struck but I have found to date that the majority of files have been scanned at a very acceptable high resolution. I have downloaded to date around 50 files in jpg format and amongst those there is only 2 that are of low resolution. I wrote to the Archives last week suggesting that these be rescanned as it was really not acceptable for archival purposes - I have yet to hear back. I would suggest that others who encounter the same issue also send them an email with the name of the file and hopefully if enough of us do so we will get some action. Cheers Dave -----Original Message----- From: Sue Greene Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2014 12:07 PM To: new-zealand@rootsweb.com Subject: [nz] Re Military files at Archives I was after one of the WW1 military files. The info. given in an earlier list is OK if the file is in a PDF format however the file I wanted has been scanned as a JPEG and has been scanned at a very low resolution. The only way I have found to get around this is as follows. Bring up the view to view each page on Archives web site, on the right top there is a magnifier, click to enlarge the page you will need to view the top part of the page first, then use a screen shot to take a snapshot of the top of the page. I use greenshot which is free to download this lets you save in different formats. I have found PMB the best. Copy then past into word. Then go back and enlarge the middle of the page take snap shot past into word then go back and take a snap shot of the bottom of the page. Once you have the three shots in word you can manipulate the screen shots join them together then save as a PDF. This is how I managed to get one full page so I could print it and read it. If you have a good photo editing programme you can stitch the bits together but I found it easier using word. Some pages may only take two screen shots. The file I needed had 19 pages but there were some pages that were blank. It's slow and takes a while to do at least I was able to read the files print them off and work out what I needed. Cheers Sue The List Guidelines http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NEW-ZEALAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message