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Old March 13th 05, 03:51 AM
Roy Smith
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Marty Shapiro wrote:

Roy Smith wrote in
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Here's two URLs pointing to PDF's of the same approach:

http://www.airnav.com/depart?http://...02/00548I2.PDF
http://download.aopa.org/iap/2005021...ils_rwy_02.pdf

The airnav version is crystal clear. The AOPA version is blurry and
pixelated. Zooming in, it almost looks as if somebody took a printed
plate and scanned it. What the heck is AOPA doing to the PDF files
that make them look this bad?


AOPA a while ago stated that they were slightly reducing the quality of the
image so it would download faster. I tried the two links you provided and
observed that the Airnav version was a 565 KB download, while the AOPA
version was 71 KB. When I printed both versions, I found both just as
usable.


OK, that's a fair enough explanation. If I was still using dial-up, I
would certainly be going for the AOPA versions.