My two cents: I don't think there is much demand for large scans. How many people actually have large documents (larger than US Letter) of any type? The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is a newspaper page; and 11x17 wouldn't cover that. For several years I had a scanner that would do (US) legal size. I don't recall ever scanning anything that size. 99% of my scans are of photographs, usually around 5x7 or smaller. I think of the "resolution of a regular scanner" as being either 300dpi or 600dpi. This is more than adequate for just about any document. A 24bit color scan at 600dpi of a 4x6 photo can easily be over 50MB. In the back of my mind is the notion that if I really needed a large document scanned that I could get it done at one of the local copy places (Kinkos maybe?), but I've never tried it. Never the less, if I had the opportunity to get a large scanner at a very reasonable price,ie, free; I'd take it. Steve -- > From: Lorin Lund <lorin.lund@gmail.com> > Subject: [PAF-5] Testing the water - is there a market for a large > document scanning service (up to 11x17) > To: paf-5-users@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <4D24BCFA.9040606@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > I have an opportunity to buy a slightly used scanner for 1/6 of its > price when new. > > If there are people who want large things scanned this might be a little > business opportunity. > > Is there anyone on this list who might be interested in having a large > picture or some other large document scanned? > > Pricing is yet unknown. I'm just trying to see if there is any interest > at all. Trying > to see whether to buy the thing. > > Thanks, > > Lorin Lund > > PS it is also capable of extra high resolution 2-4x the resolution of a > regular scanner.

This may be of interest to all of you. In this morning's LDS Church News there is an article from the RootsTech Conference. Elder Scott responds to a question about the life expectancy of PAF. http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/60513/RootsTech-Conference-Blessing-invoked-upon-family-history-consultants.html Sue -- Sue Maxwell http://granitegenealogy.blogspot.com/ Vice President - Utah Genealogical Association

Dear PAF list, Don't panic. Nothing has really changed for those of us who use PAF. We have gotten along for the past several years knowing that PAF would not be upgraded. We also know that it will not interface with new FamilySearch. We have been perfectly happy with the version available to us. In fact the only shortcoming I feel that PAF has is the handling of the new temple codes. The recent announcement has not changed anything for us. PAF will not suddenly quit working. The only change is that new users will not be able to download PAF from the familysearch site. The LDS church will probably quit marketing it on CD also. So there may be fewer new PAF users but for all of the current users nothing has changed. We only need to change to a new program if we want all the bells and whistles they offer. I have used PAF as my main program since DOS version 2.0. When PAF 2.31 came along so did an early version of Ancestral Quest. I bought Ancestral Quest because it would read my PAF data file and print reports using a windows print driver so the reports looked much nicer than the same report printed from PAF. Since then I have maintained a current copy of AQ as well as PAF. So I have already made my decision. If and when I give up on PAF I will move to AQ. It has the shortest learning curve for me of any of the programs. One of the reasons I stick with PAF is that a PAF 5 data file is the only type of file that can be read by the GenCharts for PAF program. I like the reports that I can get from this printing utility program. I can't get them anywhere else. I know the programmer of this program is now looking at developing a version of GenCharts that will read an AQ file and print reports directly from an AQ data file just like it does now from PAF. When that version of GenCharts is brought forth I may then change completely over to AQ. Until then I will continue to use both programs. Lynn -----Original Message----- From: Sue Maxwell <smaxwl@earthlink.net> To: paf-5-users@rootsweb.com Sent: Sat, Feb 19, 2011 1:07 pm Subject: [PAF-5] Life of PAF This may be of interest to all of you. In this morning's LDS Church News here is an article from the RootsTech Conference. Elder Scott responds o a question about the life expectancy of PAF. http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/60513/RootsTech-Conference-Blessing-invoked-upon-family-history-consultants.html Sue -- ue Maxwell ttp://granitegenealogy.blogspot.com/ ice President - Utah Genealogical Association ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PAF-5-USERS-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message