Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality. Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. Although there have been numerous prop maps developed for use on Star Trek sets, there has never been an intentionally definitive map developed for either. These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. Thus, Star Trek Maps coordinates may be multiplied by 0. Star Trek Maps gives its coordinates in parsecs, and FASA gives its coordinates in tens of parsecs. 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. Star Trek Maps gives The Federation a stated diameter of 480 parsecs, and FASA gives The Federation a stated diameter 180 parsecs. 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. Earths orbit around its sun, Sol, measured more than two hundred million kilometers in diameter.(TNG: 'Relics') Earth was located in the Alpha Quadrant, less than ninety light years from the boundary to the Beta Quadrant. 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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