Charts For A Theology of Evangelism - Thomas P. Johnston - Really Messed Up!!!!!

I just bought this book on VYRSO, which is a great book; but a lot of the charts in it are blurry and smudgy, and very hard to read. I realize it is how the ebook was formatted, and is the publisher's fault here. Is there anything that can be done to make the charts clearer? Can anything be done at all to correct this Erin?

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Kenute P. Curry

GaoLu

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/734814#Comment_734814

Are References in the chart hyperlinked?

Francis

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/734838#Comment_734838

Some (fewer) graphics are sharp:

But most, including all tables, are like this (I magnified to make it even plainer):

I know it is cheap on sale, but I would hope that a cheap price would not justify cheap quality in production. We need to hear from Vyrso on this!

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/734858#Comment_734858

I am definitely interested in this book but blurry graphics won't do.

If the publisher just put blurry scans into the ePub version of the book, there's nothing Vyrso can do.

Sometimes one learns about messed up digital editions by looking at Amazon reviews - let me cite a one-star review from just yesterday: Hal writes "Unable to review content. Purchased to read on a Kindle Paperwhite. The font was illegible."

The point seems to be that the tables are not text, but pictures (which also invalidates the detection of bible verses on Vyrso, so they won't link). Looking into the See-Inside on Amazon one can see they don't scale with the text font, but can only be enlargened with the browser zoom.

B&H went the cheapo-route on that and either they deliver a proper file with tables that are not scanned but the real stuff - or we have to live with it as is or create them by ourselves in Word in a PB if the content really is worth it.

Francis

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/734860#Comment_734860

see below.

Francis

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/734838#Comment_734838

Are References in the chart hyperlinked?

Nope. References in paragraphs that introduce the charts is (yellow in the picture below) but not the charts contents (for instance, Acts 14:21 below):

This seems like a very valuable resource and it would GREATLY enhanced if the graphics where converted using OCR so as to allow not only better resolution but also hyperlinks.

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/734861#Comment_734861

Can't this be fixed using high quality OCR?

Call B&H and suggest it. Probably doing QA on such OCR is the same effort as keying it in.

Kenute P. Curry

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/734864#Comment_734864

I have just spoken with a customer service representative at FAITHLIFE about this situation, and they are going to see what they can do to have this problem fixed. Hopefully, this issue will be resolved soon.

Katie Monsma

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/734933#Comment_734933

Thanks for bringing this to our attention! I am looking into this problem and will let you know updates as they are available!

Thanks,

Katie Monsma

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/734965#Comment_734965

Status update: there is currently nothing that can be done on our end to correct the files, but we are contacting publishers in hopes of getting better files.

Thanks,

Katie

Kenute P. Curry

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/734977#Comment_734977

Thank you so much Katie Monsma for responding so quickly to this situation. It is much appreciated. Really appreciate you contacting the publishers to see if you can get better files, because if you can't read the charts in this book, there is no point in having it. Once again, thank you so much.

Francis

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/734977#Comment_734977

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Status update: there is currently nothing that can be done on our end to correct the files, but we are contacting publishers in hopes of getting better files.

Thanks,

Katie

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Bruce Dunning

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/734977#Comment_734977

Status update: there is currently nothing that can be done on our end to correct the files, but we are contacting publishers in hopes of getting better files.

Much appreciated! Thanks.

Katie Monsma

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/735019#Comment_735019

No problem! Another update: we heard back from the publishers, at this time they are unable to send a new epub file our way, so at this time we are unable to upload new imagery since the publisher would need to increase the image quality.

Thanks,

Katie

Kenute P. Curry

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/735077#Comment_735077

Thanks Katie Monsma . I would like a refund on this book please, since it is of no use to me like this.

Katie Monsma

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/735097#Comment_735097

Sorry that we were unable to fix this issue, we will removes the ebooks from your account and your money will be refunded in no more than 7-10 days.

-Katie

Kenute P. Curry

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/735102#Comment_735102