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<blockquote data-quote="Laslo Tremaine" data-source="post: 465748" data-attributes="member: 330">There are two kinds of ESD...1)&nbsp; They had access to the original Quark or PageMaker files and could create a PDF from those.&nbsp; These are usually products are relatively recent and/or never made it to print. These files are usually of excellent quality.2) For these, they did not have access to the original digital files.&nbsp; So they take a physical, paper copy, cut it into individual pages, and feed it through an automatic, sheet-fed scanner.&nbsp; They then take those scans and run them through the Acrobat OCR program and combine the pages back into a single .pdf file.&nbsp; These files are a scan (72dpi, 24bit RGB) with the OCR'ed text sitting behind the scanned image.&nbsp; They do virtually no touch-up and the files usually look like hell.Click on the following URL to see a screen shot of a page for the Planescape boxed set.<a href="http://www.criminy.net/images/planescapeesd.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.criminy.net/images/planescapeesd.jpg</a>All that being said.&nbsp; I will avoid scanned ESDs if possible, but if I really want access to a product and can't find it on eBay for a reasonable price...&nbsp; Well, there's not much of an alternative...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Laslo Tremaine, post: 465748, member: 330"] There are two kinds of ESD... 1) They had access to the original Quark or PageMaker files and could create a PDF from those. These are usually products are relatively recent and/or never made it to print. These files are usually of excellent quality. 2) For these, they did not have access to the original digital files. So they take a physical, paper copy, cut it into individual pages, and feed it through an automatic, sheet-fed scanner. They then take those scans and run them through the Acrobat OCR program and combine the pages back into a single .pdf file. These files are a scan (72dpi, 24bit RGB) with the OCR'ed text sitting behind the scanned image. They do virtually no touch-up and the files usually look like hell. Click on the following URL to see a screen shot of a page for the Planescape boxed set. [url]http://www.criminy.net/images/planescapeesd.jpg[/url] All that being said. I will avoid scanned ESDs if possible, but if I really want access to a product and can't find it on eBay for a reasonable price... Well, there's not much of an alternative... [/QUOTE]

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