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@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ Our instructor asked how many of us had any experience creating websites. Only t
Our instructor sent the three of us into a small computer lab at the end of the classroom to start making plans while she explained to the rest of the class how to create a web site. Of course, if you leave three students alone in a room, they're not going to get any work done—they're going to sit and talk. It doesn't matter what their ages are—work is just not going to be a priority for them. We didn't work. Instead, we sat and talked about how we got here.
As it turns out, the older woman and I both had experience creating websites from scratch and the younger woman (the only one of the three us who was still on Plan A) had once set up a forum for her gaming community using phpBB, which is not quite the same thing as setting up a website, but close enough. It's better than nothing. She also spent quite a bit of time talking about ``leetspeak'' which had somehow passed me by—perhaps because I have never been much of a gamer.\footnote{Everything I read about this makes me feel that is either something that is pretty cool or the most annoying thing in the world. I can't quite make up my mind.}
As it turns out, the older woman and I both had experience creating websites from scratch and the younger woman (the only one of the three of us who was still on Plan A) had once set up a forum for her gaming community using phpBB, which is not quite the same thing as setting up a website, but close enough. It's better than nothing. She also spent quite a bit of time talking about ``leetspeak'' which had somehow passed me by—perhaps because I have never been much of a gamer.\footnote{Everything I read about this makes me feel that is either something that is pretty cool or the most annoying thing in the world. I can't quite make up my mind.}
Still, this left some twenty-odd young people on the other side of that door who were utterly clueless about how to create a website, and were more than a little nervous about the prospect.
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\chapter{Not Another PDF Scanner}
Way back in issue \#1 of this zine\footnote{Which is only three issues ago, but considering that I published it in 2021, it \textit{seems} like a long time ago. I really need to get my act together and get these out on a more regular basis.} I talked about my workflow for scanning documents because I am trying to be as digital as possible.
Way back in issue \#1 of this zine I talked about my workflow for scanning documents because I am trying to be as digital as possible.\footnote{Issue \#1 is only three issues ago, but considering that I published it in 2021, it \textit{seems} like a long time ago. I really need to get my act together and get these out on a more regular basis.}
In that article ``A Scanner Darkly, but with a workflow'' I mentioned that I used one piece of commercial software (VueScan) because it did what no FOSS software that I knew of at the time could do: work with my all-in-one printer/scanner and also sort pages effectively when my scanner's ADF\footnote{Automatic Document Feeder} does not duplex (i.e., it does not flip pages over to scan the other side). While it is great software, and I did not mind paying the \$100 for a one-year subscription to it (the software company behind it is pretty much a father and son team), I didn't like being dependent on it.
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\kpage{1}\kpage{2}\hspace{1mm}\kpage{3}\kpage{4}\hspace{1mm}\kpage{5}\kpage{6}\hspace{1mm}\kpage{7}\kpage{8}\hspace{1mm}\kpage{9}\kpage{10}
\end{figure}
Using this scanner means every page has to be scanned twice—one time for the front side, and a second time for the reverse side. As a result ``upside-down'' has a couple of meanings here. My scanner's ADF accepts pages with the side you want to scan face down. It then flips them over when it scans them, which rotates them around both the $z$-axis and the $y$-axis. Because it flips them over along the $y$-axis, I only have to spin them around the $z$-axis. This should seem self-explanatory, but it often isn't—I had to use the scanner at work the other day and it took me three times to get it right.
Using this scanner means every page has to be scanned twice—one time for the front side, and a second time for the reverse side. As a result ``upside-down'' has a couple of meanings here. My scanner's ADF accepts pages with the side you want to scan face down. It then flips them over when it scans them, which rotates them around both the $z$-axis and the $y$-axis. Because it flips them over along the $y$-axis, I only have to spin them around the $z$-axis. This should seem self-explanatory, but it often isn't—I had to use the scanner at work the other day and it took me three attempts to get it right.
Because I wrote on both sides of each side of paper in order to emulate a double-sided original, I scanned the pages, and then spun them around the $z$-axis and scanned the other sides. And because I am scanning these face down, the even numbers end up in reverse order. So I ended up with a pdf that looked like figure \ref{naps2-scan}.