Phil (VA3UX) wrote:
>
>If anyone has purchased any of the ARRL's CD rom collections of QST or QEX,
>can you please comment on the quality of the files on the CDs. Are the
>files pdfs, jpgs, or what ?
They vary.
>From 1994 on back, they are scanned page images with only a title/
author/date search. Browse facilities were poor, and they made no use of
the existing classified annual index. Text and picture quality is about
as good as a fax. MS Windows only.
>From 1995 through 1998 inclusive, they tried a variety of proprietary
readers. They work, and you can get OK images out of them, but some of
the features are a little strange by "industry standards". You can
search on every word, but still they made no use of the existing
classified annual index. Still MS Windows only.
The latest ones (1998 and 1999) are PDF-based, and easy to search using
all the well-known facilities of the Adobe PDF Reader. Likewise the
quality of the diagrams is good. Welcome aboard to Mac users too.
Hopefully PDF will be a stable format for the future, because even the
files on the old CDs will be able to benefit from future improvements in
the Adobe PDF Reader.
73 from Ian G3SEK Editor, 'The VHF/UHF DX Book'
'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
http://www.ifwtech.com/g3sek
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