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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IanB" data-source="post: 5936310" data-attributes="member: 1473">I have a ton of the old ESD pdfs so I can talk about them some.They're... semi-OCRed. I can cut and paste some text in some of them but it frequently skips lines/words/etc. when I try to select sections. They do also have section bookmarks... mostly. These are very uneven in granularity/usefulness from PDF to PDF. Some lack them entirely.The worst thing though, is maps, whether on the inside covers or poster-sized stuff. The poster sized stuff is all cut up page by page so you couldn't do a large format print even if you wanted, stuff wouldn't line up even if you tried to tape it all together because some pages are scanned crookedly and edges are missing, etc., etc.For the most part, they're effectively useless for printing; even the 'good' ones look pretty bad.A vaguely-passable quality product would mean redoing the scanning process entirely from scratch, there's no question about that. A good quality product would mean redoing the type and layout entirely using modern publishing tools.Were I WotC I would feel pretty iffy about putting out anything as a branded product that wasn't at the "good" quality level I mention above, like they're doing with the 3 1e rulebooks.EDIT: And yes there are several products missing, the most important of which is probably City of Greyhawk (he said with no bias at all...) Orcs of Thar was also unavailable, which I always chalked up to it being probably the most racist product TSR ever put out.</blockquote>

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