Hi again I just did a random test on one will It is scans of the original pages and are perfectly clear So I need to see a sample of the one you have to see if there is a difference when I view it Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 09/11/2012 12:46, pjsalis@hal-pc.org wrote: > Nivard, > > I went to this site to search the soldiers' wills database. I downloaded > five wills and on all images a more or less dense blue film covered the > will. In two cases the film made the will unreadable. The film also > appeared in the pdf print image. I found no mention of this blue film in > the long description of the database and of the conservation procedures > used prior to digitization. > > Has anyone else seen the blue film? What explains it? Why reduce the > usefulness of the database by deliberately making some images unreadable? > > PJ