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Subject: Re: Dungeons and Dragons with embedded fonts
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On Sun, 08 Jun 2014 00:57:37 +0300, Popeye wrote:
> On 2014-06-07 02:17:31 +0000, rpg fan said:
>
>> Ok, how the hell are you getting old TSR material with embedded fonts?
>> Those aren't page scans. Those are actual typed text! You can zoom
>> that stuff to insane resolutions and the text stays crisp.
>>
>> Is there some app which does this?
>
> Not my doing, whoever ripped it back in the day did it. I personally
> prefer the non OCR files, since non OCRed files preserve the look of the
> originals. Furthermore, if you really wanted, you could OCR the files
> yourself from the source.
>
> I'm pretty proud of my collection, though: it took quite a bit of time
> to go through all the mega-torrents to build the collection that I have
> now. It pleases me to think that at least for another few years, classic
> D&D will live on in Usenet form.
What are you using to post?
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