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 game has received some bulky additional content before, including Urban Warfare, Flashpoint, and so forth. Each Career gives us different possibilities, whether its the mechs encountered, the weapons obtained, or a lucky shot that saves you from a terrible loss.
The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. BattleTech is a very broad tactical experience.
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. 473 new playable star systems, adding all of the Taurian, Canopian and Marian worlds plus several Deep Periphery systems, with the star map extended in all directions to also include. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. The vanilla FPs appear in the new Campaign as independent mini-campaigns, except for the Black Widow one which is removed (but still appears on Career mode).