[Ieee_vis] restoring older archived PDFs to full color

[Michael McGuffin]

Have you noticed that some of the older papers archived in IEEE's 
digital libraries (ieeexplore and computer.org) have grayscale, 
hard-to-read images, despite the paper being about visualization?  A 
good example is the HyperSlice paper by van Wijk and van Liere from VIS 
1993 ( http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/VISUAL.1993.398859 ).

If you have color copies of older papers from
- VIS 1995 or earlier,
- InfoVis 1996 or earlier,
- TVCG 1996 or earlier,
then maybe we can improve the archival copies.  I'm in touch with some 
folks on the IEEE Digital Library Operations Committee, and if you can 
email or snail-mail me either color PDF files or color paper copies (of 
individual papers or entire proceedings / journals), then I will see 
about getting them to the appropriate person to have the digital 
archival copy updated.  If you don't have color copies, but have copies 
with grayscale images that are clearer than those in the digital 
library, then I'm also interested in hearing from you.

And if there's anyone else out there already looking at this issue, let 
me know so we don't duplicate efforts :-)

Thanks,

Michael McGuffin, Professeur
Département de génie logiciel et des TI
École de technologie supérieure
1100 Notre-Dame Ouest
Montréal, Québec, H3C 1K3, Canada

http://profs.etsmtl.ca/mmcguffin/
Phone: +1-514-396-8418