How to Get PDF Files of Your Magazines from Magzter

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Magzter is a popular eBook store that mainly sells magazines. You’re probably already familiar with it as you have come to this article. While Magzter has apps for iOS and Android, someone who wants to read on a dedicatedeBook reader such as Kindlewill require offline files, which unfortunately Magzter doesn’t provide. But we’re here to come up with a workaround.

You can’t exactly download PDFs, but you can make them using the offline files downloaded by the app.

Here’s the step by step guide.

Step 1:Magzter is available only as a Modern UI app for Windows. Sodownload the appfrom the Windows app store. Also installIrfanViewas it will used later on.

Step 2:After it is installed, log in to your account by pressingWin key + C>Settings>Account. After the login, right-click anywhere to bring a drop-down menu from the top, go to thePurchasedsection and select the magazine you want. Clicking onRead Nowwill start downloading the magazine. Let all the pages of the magazine load.

Step 3:Every Windows app stores some of its files locally on your computer. In this case also, the magazine you downloaded is stored on your drive. Magzter’s app stores the files locally at the location given below:

C:\Users\AppData\Local\Packages

Inside thePackagesfolder, navigate toxxxx.Magzter.xxxx > LocalState > (folder with 5 digit number) > uos. In case there are several folders with 5 digit numbers insideLocalState, open each of them and view the.DATfiles inside the respectiveuosfolder with IrfanView to determine which magazine’s files are stored where. IrfanView will ask you to change the file extension but ignore it and clickNo.

Once you have ascertained which magazine you want, copy thatuosfolder to another location.

Step 4:After copying the correctuosfolder, right-click anywhere inside it and selectGroup by > size. This will rearrange the files according to the size. Again right click anywhere and selectSort by>Name. This will rearrange the files in numerical order under theLargeHeader. After this step you should have the files arranged like the way shown in the image below.

Step 5:As the files are in .DAT format, we need tobatch convert the images into jpg or pngusing IrfanView. Select the uos folder you copied in earlier step to add the images. Do take care thatthey are in numerical order, or else you will have a hard time understanding your magazine.

Step 6:After you have converted them into a suitable format, download and installPDFMate, a free application that merges files into PDF form. You can add the wholeuosfolder by clicking onAdd Folderor you can add selected images(pages) of the magazine ignoring the pages with ads or content you don’t want. Also set the appropriateOutput Folder, where your PDF file be saved. Finally press the bigBuildbutton to start the process.

Cool Tip:If you don’t want anyone to find out what magazines you are reading, you canpassword protect your PDF files.

Conclusion

This was how you can convert your magazines into PDF format. If you have any doubts or thoughts on this, do share in comments.

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Last updated on 02 February, 2022

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