Systems and procedures at MBPC/Crustacea

Documentation for computer and other systems in use at MBPC/Crustacea.

• Working with Macs at MBPC/Crustacea
  • Making your own files accessible on the Web
  • Macintosh laptops
  • Inventory of MBPC/Crustacea Macintoshes

• Digital images
  • Introduction to digital images
  • Photoshop protocol

• PDF and reference processing
  • Using a proxy server
  • Capturing references in PDF form
  • Mechanics of scanning documents into PDF files
    • Scanning with copier/scanners
      • Scanning on the Xerox 4110 copier/scanner (NHM 3rd floor east end)
      • Scanning on the Xerox CopyCentre copier/scanner (NHM 3rd Floor IT Lab)
        • Tips for the Xerox CopyCentre copier/scanner (NHM 3rd Floor IT Lab)
    • Flatbed scanning for figures and plates
    • Acrobat usage tips
    • Using "pdftk" to manipulate PDF files
    • Final Acrobat processing on OS X
    • Final Acrobat processing on Windows