All fonts are nice, simple clear serif fonts, making the whole thing very readable. The pages are clear and readable, with the chapter splash pages being a dark gray, almost black, with white text. Let's take a look at how much has changed.īooks Mage: the Ascension joined it's Old World of Darkness (oWOD) companions in a purple soft cover with the folds of purple fabric surrounding a Tarot Card drawn by Joshua Gabriel Timbrook, specifically, and appropriately, that of the Magician - or in this case, the Mage. And let me tell you, the slow drift away from the previous incarnations that we saw with Vampire and Werewolf gathered up steam and left a nice wave in it's wake with Mage: the Awakening. For most people, the book just became available on August 29, but I managed to be one of the lucky 300 (plus those who won them as prizes) to get my hands on one at Gen Con. Well, here we are at the release of the latest line for White Wolf's new World of Darkness. Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.Ch-Ch-Changes: A comparative review of Mage: the Awakening Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey.
It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition.
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