This PDF is a scanned copy of the last printed edition of GURPS Arabian Nights. There are a thousand and one journeys in GURPS Arabian Nights! This fascinating book describes both the real and the fictional world of the Arabian Nights, its tumultuous history, the religions that define its culture, beasts of fact and fantasy, outlandish magic, and unique campaign ideas. and Islam held off the Frankish invasion. Fight in the Crusades, when Western chivalry sought to free the Holy Land. Voyage with Sinbad or ride with Marco Polo in search of the riches of the Orient. Confront a shapeshifting djinn, or cast spells that move mountains and tame fantastic beasts. sultans, poets, merchants, and the original Assassins – all this and more can be found in GURPS Arabian Nights. Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.OPEN SESAME! Flying carpets and magic lamps. 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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