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Hello,
Some pages on the Vocal scores for Rusalka seem to glitch. Some are even hazy/blurred. Is it possible to obtain a cleaner copy without the glitches?
Thank You

I'm going to just randomly guess this is a jp2-produced PDF from Internet Archive... the best way in that case would be for someone to patiently download the source jp2 files, reprocess them into another image format, and create and upload another PDF. JP2s do not good PDFs make, in my honest opinion. (Though in some cases the problems I've had from them have resulted from my trying to open them in my Mac's preview.app rather than in Adobe or another PDF reader; they interact less well with the former than the latter. In _some_ cases.)

I see however that the scanner is listed as "unknown" (of course... )

I see three "glitched" pages in the vocal score for Act 2.

I had a look at Act 1. What are complaining about exactly? Can you please provide page numbers?

Some pages e.g. p.4 have been converted to monochrome with an inappropriate threshold, making symbols look like salt and pepper when you magnify a lot. I could cure this by converting to jpg, blurring and back to monochrome but this will take time. I would be nice to crop the margins too.

Are any other pages worse than this feature? I didn't find this work on Internet Archive.

p.5 of Act 2 has a dark area. I can't do anything.

Same situation on p. 16 of the Act 2 file (p. 105 of the score), and p. 48 (p. 137 of the score).

You can obtain the same scan of p.5 at https://dlib.rsl.ru/viewer/01004464968#?page=96 but obtaining it at high resolution will be another topic!

I uploaded the least bad fix I am able to do for the 3 glitched pages. https://imslp.org/wiki/Rusalka,_Op.114_ ... on%C3%ADn)