Mainline Modeler on DVD!

[reinhardtjh]

Yeah, I'm no PDF guru either.  But I can tell you I can go to around 400% size before the text gets a halo around it and when I jump to 600% I start to see a staircase effect on some of the sloping characters.  At either magnification, the text is still readable.

I also found out that the Adobe Acrobat Reader DC version I have will break the Adobe Portfolio file into individual PDF's for each issue.  Each issue file size ends up being around 10MB.

[sirenwerks]

Not really sure how to do this, as am not expert on PDFs.  Am assuming that text portions of scanned page would have been converted to text elements with characters etc., and that remaining portions of scanned page would have been stored as some sort of directly embedded raster images (inline images).  Am further assuming that anyone with Adobe Acrobat or similar would be able to extract such raster images and display in a program which shows pixel dimensions.  Lots of assumptions there (...). 

OTOH, the boiler image you show above seems reasonably detailed. 

MH

Not necessarily.  The text could just be stored as metadata, making it searchable.  Not the optimal way, but as an end-user adept at keyword searches, I'd be satisfied with simply being led to the right articles.  But now I have a near complete collection to pull out of storage and get rid of...


Hmmm... could a RMC collection be far behind?

[reinhardtjh]

Hmmm... could a RMC collection be far behind?

That would be great.  I'd pay a bit for that, too.

[sirenwerks]

I'd pay for a hi-res RMJ collection too.  While the image quality in RMJ was always lacking, it had a lot of good data in it, and the online version is clunky to navigate and, it's recent crash proves, not as reliable as we all hope it to be.