Woody...first let me say that for all my cars I've ever had, the first thing I do is go out and buy FACTORY shop manuals. I totally can appreciate having a good, accurate and vehicle specific manual....
As for the CDs....I've had first hand experience with poor pix quality of electronic manuals which were created using a PDF format. I've seen ones where the pix were virtally unusable and I've seen others where the pix looked as good as they did on paper....So, it apparently IS possible to have clear pix in PDF....the question is why didn't they do this with the MBZ CDs????
Maybe people in the forum can create our OWN CDs
...people with paper manuals scanning in chpts and pix...prolly all kinds of copyright issues tho, oh well.
