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I just received my first Sporty's DVD with all of the approaches.
They are all PDF files, vectors so you can zoom as much as you want, and they stay clear. Pretty cool. "Paul Tomblin" wrote in message ... In a previous article, "MichaelR" said: Sporty's is now selling the entire set of FAA TPP's on a DVD for $9.95: http://sportys.com/pilotshop/pages/chartviewer.cfm Are the TPPs themselve in PDF format, or what? It says you need a Windows PC, but if the that's only for the wizzy chart viewer program and the actual data is in a non-proprietary format, I might subscribe. The screen shot http://sportys.com/pilotshop/images/step4l.gif looks an AWFUL lot like a web browser with an Adobe Acrobat plugin looking at a PDF. -- Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/ FAQs are like flatulence. Any asshole can produce them. -- Toni L |
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MichaelR wrote: I just received my first Sporty's DVD with all of the approaches. They are all PDF files, vectors so you can zoom as much as you want, and they stay clear. Can you email me a couple of them to look at? I'm tempted to buy these DVDs and something to display (or possibly print) them on. -- Ben Jackson http://www.ben.com/ |
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In a previous article, "MichaelR" said:
I just received my first Sporty's DVD with all of the approaches. They are all PDF files, vectors so you can zoom as much as you want, and they stay clear. Pretty cool. Cool. I ordered the DVD. If I can, I'll write a program to do the browsing and displaying for Linux and Mac OS X. -- Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/ Can't get out of 'vi'? Common problem. Don't worry, I'm here to help. Just log in as root and type "init 0". It works for pretty much any problem you might have with Linux. No, no, no. Thank /you/. -- Mikey Raeder |
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There's an airport diagram on alt.binaries.pictures.aviation.
The PDFs have weird names, so you can't find a specific chart or airport by just browsing around the disc. The included program is easy, and apparently uses an XML file to point to the right PDF. "Ben Jackson" wrote in message news:3WGdc.102965$gA5.1369481@attbi_s03... In article , MichaelR wrote: I just received my first Sporty's DVD with all of the approaches. They are all PDF files, vectors so you can zoom as much as you want, and they stay clear. Can you email me a couple of them to look at? I'm tempted to buy these DVDs and something to display (or possibly print) them on. -- Ben Jackson http://www.ben.com/ |
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MichaelR wrote: There's an airport diagram on alt.binaries.pictures.aviation. The PDFs have weird names, so you can't find a specific chart or airport by just browsing around the disc. The included program is easy, and apparently uses an XML file to point to the right PDF. I downloaded that and converted it to 480x640x16 grayscale and 800x600x16. It looks like a ebook/pda/tablet sort of device with either of those resolutions and a 6"+ screen could be a great platform. In GIF format each plate would be 40-60k (perhaps less, that ORD runway diagram is very complicated). That means a DVD full of those PDFs, even if full, would fit on a big compact flash card in GIF format (pre-scaled to the device resolution). -- Ben Jackson http://www.ben.com/ |
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