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What is AOPA doing to their approach plates?
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? |
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AirNav is pointing you to the National Aeronatical Chart Office. The PDFs
appear to be generated from original postscript sources. The AOPA does appear to be either a scanned document, or it is being produced from a lower qualify source, or it's being produced with an older version of Acrobat, or ?? Why not ask AOPA? Juan "Roy Smith" wrote in message ... 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? |
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Roy Smith wrote in
: 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. -- Marty Shapiro Silicon Rallye Inc. (remove SPAMNOT to email me) |
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Marty Shapiro wrote: Roy Smith wrote in : 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. |
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Just go here and forget AOPA:
http://avn.faa.gov/index.asp?xml=naco/online/d_tpp "Roy Smith" wrote in message ... 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? |
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