Not exact matches
With the downloadable PDF, you get full ownership of the
file, but the
comics experience is incomplete because you are simply scrolling through a set of
pages — it's like reading a print
comic that has been scanned in, only a little clumsier because the digital effects require extra
pages.
I'm actually OK with buying digital
comics at full price as long as I can download the
files off my phone or table and read them on other machines (so I actually own them), but in cases where that isn't available or I already own the print
comics I've been looking into scanning services like 1dollarscan.com (not actually one dollar unless you're scanning less than 100
pages w / o OCR).
CDisplay Archived
Comic Book files hold comic book pages in image formats like PNG, JPEG, BMP, and
Comic Book
files hold
comic book pages in image formats like PNG, JPEG, BMP, and
comic book
pages in image formats like PNG, JPEG, BMP, and GIF.
Back in the»90s, when I was working for a rival
comics company, and both Marvel and we were using a service bureau in the East»40s to output cover and text
page films for printing at Quebecor, the bureau's staff were constantly bitching that the Marvel crew didn't know how to prepare
files for print output, often failing to embed font
files or sending low - rez (72 ppi) art.
I have my fingers crossed that they'll fix this in a firmware update, as it would be PERFECT if it treated PDFs like it treats
comic book
files — ditch the
page numbers (or at least make them optional) and automatically scale each
page up to the maximum size possible on the screen.