After about 5 hours of work I have a 90% accurate pdf of Issue 9-5 of the Heuristic Squelch. This is the so-called "Newsprint" issue.

It’s 90% accurate because I had to rebuild the pdf from the original pagemaker files on my mac using windows specific fonts. Why didn’t I use a PC? Because for some reason pagemaker refused to output the pdfs properly on the PC and it worked a lot better on my mac. The font troubles meant I had to fix a few small text errors, and of course the fonts didn’t display perfectly, but still, I checked it against the original and with a few exceptions, this is as good a PDF as we’ll get for that one.

This ended up being a spectacular amount of work, and I wouldn’t have started it if I realized what a bitch it was going to be. Luckily there’s only one more issue that I have enough files to repeat this process on (the Apocalypse issue). I’ll have to do it within the next 30 days because that’s when my free trial of pagemaker ends.