The crappy quality is because the PDFs uploaded to JW.org have all images reduced to 150 ppi. There are exceptions to that too. E.g. The tract Know the Truth in Shona (kt_CA.pdf) is 32 MB in size (while other language editions are 300-500 KB), because it has the images at 300 ppi (and compressed differently).
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Tiny procedural change
by Caminante insince i have my own software to track pdf publication uploads and changes on jw.org and simplify publication downloads, i looked behind the reasons why certain publications had been updated this last month (first the know the truth tract in hungarian which i knew of it didn't have any recent textual revisions, and then bible teach book, which had suffered a further update the picture on page 3 was replaced).
i noticed one little procedural change, which 99 percent of the witnesses won't even notice, but the publications printed since the start of this service year no longer have "all rights reserved" on the publishers' page.
first i thought it was a mistake, but it's for real.
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Tiny procedural change
by Caminante insince i have my own software to track pdf publication uploads and changes on jw.org and simplify publication downloads, i looked behind the reasons why certain publications had been updated this last month (first the know the truth tract in hungarian which i knew of it didn't have any recent textual revisions, and then bible teach book, which had suffered a further update the picture on page 3 was replaced).
i noticed one little procedural change, which 99 percent of the witnesses won't even notice, but the publications printed since the start of this service year no longer have "all rights reserved" on the publishers' page.
first i thought it was a mistake, but it's for real.
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No, it's not scanned. The old version of MEPS Composition (pre-1997) generated text as a separate layer of black and white (1-bit) bitmap. Current reprints use the latest renditions on file. For example the Family Happiness book (printed in 1996) has the covers (designed after 2001) laid out using text as text, the pages with text as image except a page that was updated to reflect "volumes 1 and 2" of the Young People Ask books.
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Tiny procedural change
by Caminante insince i have my own software to track pdf publication uploads and changes on jw.org and simplify publication downloads, i looked behind the reasons why certain publications had been updated this last month (first the know the truth tract in hungarian which i knew of it didn't have any recent textual revisions, and then bible teach book, which had suffered a further update the picture on page 3 was replaced).
i noticed one little procedural change, which 99 percent of the witnesses won't even notice, but the publications printed since the start of this service year no longer have "all rights reserved" on the publishers' page.
first i thought it was a mistake, but it's for real.
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Since I have my own software to track PDF publication uploads and changes on JW.org and simplify publication downloads, I looked behind the reasons why certain publications had been updated this last month (first the Know the Truth tract in Hungarian — which I knew of it didn't have any recent textual revisions, and then Bible Teach book, which had suffered a further update — the picture on page 3 was replaced). I noticed one little procedural change, which 99 percent of the Witnesses won't even notice, but the publications printed since the start of this service year no longer have "All Rights Reserved" on the publishers' page. First I thought it was a mistake, but it's for real. Since all publications had it before, there must be some legal reason behind its removal. Are there some rights pertaining to the literature which Watch Tower are unable to reserve?
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Any PDF's of Kingdom News 38?
by outinthemeadows ini've been looking for a pdf of the kingdom news 38 tract......i could do with a good laugh.
any offers?
lol.
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However, it's not kn38, it's tract no. 35 (T-35), and it's available this very moment in 430 languages.
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Why the need for a new font?
by Splash inso with everything else being dissected, i want to know why it's important to have a font that can be copyrighted?.
the font used is very similar to a number of others, like tahoma, ms sans serif, and arial etc, so what benefit is there to employing (in the loose sense of the word) a team in japan to create a brand new western set of glyphs?.
will this help with their prosecution of those who copy/paste nnwt verses?.
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1) We aren't talking about 'Western' sets of glyphs, but Latin typefaces that include all the Latin characters, accents, ligatures for all languages that use Latin characters (including Vietnamese, Lahu, as well as Amerindian languages and African languages that use Latin script). The basic font files use one-byte encoding, MEPS has a Unicode conversion algorithm that translates Unicode/UTF-8 input (that might include precomposed accented characters) into the glyph sequence generated for PostScript output.
2) When talking about Latin fonts, MEPS used two different sets of fonts. The newer ones (those used mostly today) were purchased from URW (apparently the full URW TypeWorks collection released in 1994), and those have names starting with WtU followed by the font name (WtUStoneSerItcTMed) and started to be used in 1996. The older ones are the result of Watchtower's own digitization process in the early days of MEPS. Most of them have commercial counterparts, but some glyphs are pretty much different and the type production departament of the Watchtower has done a pretty neat job.
3) The fonts used for the Bible are not the same in every language. English uses WtHelvetica for sans-serif type and WtIon (a slightly lighter version of WtIonic, the font used to compose the Daily Text booklet) for serif type, but most other languages have WtRegalII (the font used in forms and talk outlines), few exceptions use WtEgyptian (German, Greek, Portugese, Slovak), WtUBookmanItcTLig (Polish), WtCenturySchoolbook (Vietnamese), WtUStoneSerItcTMed (Turkish) and even spotted a WtGaramondNew in the Czech edition. Probably by having this new set of fonts they want to use a modern set of typefaces to further distinguish this new revision and use the same fonts in every language.
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SCAN NEEDED - The Watchtower 1927
by Nebeska Nada inseptember 1, 1927, page 260.. .
can somebody scan it, please?.
tito.
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Yeah, the 1927 Watchtower that circulates within that torrent of the old magazines has page 260 missing.
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Secret "codes" that the W.T. use for their publications?
by hubert inhi, i haven't been on here for a really long time and stopped researching, however, i am starting to get back into it again.. so with that said, i have a question.... when i looked up a word phrase i wanted to find in an old 2004 w.t.
library cd, it came up with a code of "ts" at the bottom of the printout that i printed.
i failed to note what j.w.
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The list of all currently used publication mnemonics (that's the official designation for these codes) are found in the Watchtower Publications List (S-15). Atlantis posted the most recent, March 2013, version.
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This Generation
by KSFernando inas per the new light on generation they believe this generation means anointed christians.
when jesus said this generation there were no any anointed in earth.
they become anointed after jesus returned to heaven.
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Fernando: The scripture in Matthew 24:34 has been always understood as to be refering to the end times. as having an eschatological application.
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"The Truth Changes" with the text from the "Simplified" Edition WT
by Doug Mason inthe text i used in my analysis, "the truth changes: watchtower july 15, 2013" comes from the "study" edition of that magazine.. it is still available at: http://www.jwstudies.com/the_truth_changes.pdf.
i have now used the text from the "simplified" edition, and it is available at:.
http://www.jwstudies.com/the_truth_changes_in_the_simplified_watchtower.pdf.
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Doug, according to the current understanding, there is a Kingdom government, but it's operating only in heaven, under the rulership of Christ Jesus. The anointed are yet to be rewarded with their heavenly authority as kings and priests at around Armageddon, the sole role of the FDS a.k.a. GB being taking the lead and overseeing the operations of the organization. Neither in the previous understanding hasn't been claimed that the anointed had been given Kingdom authority. At least that's how I see it.
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March 2013 KM in our cong.....are BLUE
by monkeyman indownload from this site is pink.
is this a sneaky way to ferret out those who get theirs from this site?.
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For as long I remember, Our Kingdom Ministry has been printed in two colors (black + something). When they introduced the latest layout change (in 2009 -- when they switched from Helvetica + Ionic to ITC Stone) the second color was a precomposed ink that matched the cover of the study edition of The Watchtower. Because precomposed inks are more expensive than the basic cyan, magenta, yellow and black inks, they returned to alternating cyan and magenta as the second color (as yellow is per se not very visible). The same thing is being done with convention and assembly programs, but those are designed to be printed in one color (e.g. the district convention program: last year's PDFs on jw.org were all black, this year's are black, cyan or magenta, depending on the language, but eventually all will be printed in the color chosen for programs and badges).