I dropped in by chance on 2000 AD Programme 1791 from July 2012, and found Judge Dredd on the first page in fresh, stark colors by Eva de la Cruz on album-sized semi-gloss paper that made the glamourous cartoonish art by Andrew Currie sizzle. Stumbling onto Judge Dredd recently made me want to go back and relive at least the 1980s for my weekly fix. Judge Dredd features were hot off the press during my whole adult life, and I had no idea.
In younger years I was wary of police and would never have warmed up to a strip hero like super-cop JUDGE DREDD then dominating headlines in the UK and Commonwealth countries and planets beyond since 1977 in a newsprint weekly 2000 AD, the numbers now reaching in the thousands each bursting with art. Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.Artist: Brian Bolland, Ian Gibson, Andrew Currie et al. Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive.
The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy.
Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text.
These products were created by scanning an original printed edition.
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