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<DIV><SPAN class=109360213-28092002><FONT face="Courier New" color=#0000ff>Yes,
this is an issue I haven't seen mentioned that
needs consideration.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=109360213-28092002><FONT face="Courier New" color=#0000ff>I did
some experimenting with pdf files and the typical page, done
in grayscale, will come in somewhere around 100KB per page.
Full page ads, around 150KB/page. This is best case
scenario. Pics and other graphics will look OK on screen but print
poorly. For print quality pdf files (300dpi) the size goes way up,
1MB - 2MB per page. Publish in color and the file sizes
increase more.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=109360213-28092002><FONT face="Courier New" color=#0000ff>The
issues I question are:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=109360213-28092002><FONT face="Courier New" color=#0000ff>1)
How many people who opt for the online version will actually bother to
download? Broadband internet connections are still in the minority -
most people are still 56Kb dial-up.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=109360213-28092002><FONT face="Courier New" color=#0000ff>2)
What are advertisers going to think about this and how important is advertising
to the K-Factor budget? As an advertiser, I'm
skeptical.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=109360213-28092002><FONT face="Courier New" color=#0000ff>Lee
Davis</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=109360213-28092002><FONT face="Courier New"
color=#0000ff>Piedmont Models</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=109360213-28092002><FONT face="Courier New" color=#0000ff><A
href="http://www.piedmontmodels.com/">http://www.piedmontmodels.com/</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
discussion-request@nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request@nsrca.org]<B>On Behalf
Of </B>Wade & Barbara Akle<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, September 28, 2002
8:34 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Discussion rc NSRCA<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: K-Factor
vision of the future.<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>I may have missed somebody mentioning the excessive size of the
present k=factor downloads of 5-7 Mbps (:<</DIV>
<DIV>I have great admiration for our web-site team and thank them for it al
the time. And, I am for having the k-factor delivered on the web.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>One question is how come I get to download in pdf format all kind of
manuals and pages of information larger than the k-factor in a reasonable time
and yet have avoided the k-factor because of the time it takes?? </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Until the download time on a 56 kbps phone line gets down to less than a
minute or two, we have a losing proposition, leaving a lot of us without the
k-factor.</DIV>
<DIV>Wade</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>