Prospero and Ariel 3.0

[Eric Schnell]

      This is in response to many the emails I have already received since 
we announced the availability of Prospero version 1.38 earlier today... THE 
COLOR COMPRESSION ISSUE IS NOT JUST A PROSPERO ISSUE! NLM IS ALSO HAVING 
PROBLEMS WITH DOCMORPH.  We created version 1.38 to handle the compression 
problem. So far with version 1.38 things have worked good locally.

      Ariel 1.38 indeed DOES handle the Ariel 3 color documents by alerting 
you it can not process them. Previous version of Prospero cannot identify 
the color files and WILL crash.

     We received *our* copy of Ariel 3.0 this past Wednesday.  We were 
*unsuccessful* in our attempt to obtain a beta version to insure no 
problems would exist.

         Also be aware of the fact that even compressed, Ariel 3.0 color 
files are still quite large. Our ILL staff has been directed to use color 
only when having color is essential to the content.


     PLEASE alert us to any other issues with Ariel 3.0 and Prospero 1.38 
that you may have...


Thanks



Eric Schnell
Assistant Professor
Head, Information Technology Services
Prior Health Sciences Library
The Ohio State University
schnell.9 at osu.edu / 614-292-4870