Re scanning Fractal Creations 2nd Edition: John Wilson did what in my opinion is a very successful experiment scanning the first few pages of Fractal Creations 2nd Edition (FC2). With a quick spot check of his results, I couldn't see any obvious typos. I expected much worse. John, could you tell us what OCR software you used? And thanks to John for his effort in this regard. John initially posted his results on his web site and I may have embarressed him because I was a bit panicked that I hadn't thought through my policy on allowing book drafts on the internet, and I asked him to take the web site down. He graciously did so and emailed the files to me so I could look at them. I've now thought about the policy for publically posting FC2 and this is the result. My concern is that I don't want poor quality or incomplete copies spread around without a clear statment of the legal status of the copies. I don't anticipate trying to make another commercial publication of FC2, and I certainly favor "publishing" a free copy in electronic form. I'll need to give some thought to the legal status of the eventual complete copy. I'll want to retain the copyright in some form. I would like any working copies of FC2 to be posted only with my permission, and with the following readme: <start README start:> 1. These files represent a work in progress of a volunteer effort to scan the book "Fractal Creations Second Edition" with the permission of the author and copyright holder Tim Wegner, who does not give up his rights by the posting of these files. 2. Because these files represent a work in progress, they necessarily have a short life and will be replaced with better/more complete versions, they should not be posted elsewhere without permission of Tim Wegner, twegnerATfractint.org. <end README> I hereby grant John Wilson permission to post the FC2 files he has already created and any others he cares to create. I'll extend the same permission to anyone else who wants to contribute work to this effort and post the results, but please ask me first so we can keep the effort reasonably centralized. I don't mind if the files are publically viewable on the internet as long as the README above is present. I've had offers of FTP access with login for a few team members, but I don't think this degree of security is needed. On the other hand, I don't think we should publicize this effort more broadly than this list until it's done. Followups to the FC2 OCR discussion and the related "Fractint CD" topic should be on the fractdev list, since the discussion will only be pertinent to those who actually want to contribute, and would be wasted bandwidth for others. So if you want to discuss or lurk, you should join that list. Tim