As I understand it, the last few print issues of both Dungeon and Dragon magazines will never available in PDF format because WotC yanked the licenses back prior to the 4e launch. This included the right to turn the print magazines into the PDF format. (I believe that the PDF was published a bit later than the print version of an issue, which is why there was a lag between the final print issue and the final PDF issue.)
So the short answer is no, there will never be a PDF version available of Dungeon 147.
So the short answer is no, there will never be a PDF version available of Dungeon 147.
I have a PDF issue of 147 and 148. I don't know where they came from, but they exist.
Some how, my computer connected to some kind of arcane network where, in a torrent of bits, the information assembled itself before my very eyes. it was like black magic I tell you. I tried to use divine magic but the fiendish dire lawyer minions of the Wizard of the Coast warded against lawful acquisition, so I had to resort to more chaotic methods.Now to find those last couple of issues...
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Ok well I have seen some of the "black magic" versions and I will tell you from the few I have purchased the quality is so much better I am more then willing to fork over the $5 for the ones offered by Paizo. If it is a thing that they cant make one ok but If it is more a thing of they are just to busy with Pathfinder the get the old stuff ready, I would just like them to know some of us are willing to spend the cash on this. I have all the mags but some of them are worth having a digital copy as well.
As I understand it the last few issues were never made into PDFs. They'd have had to have made them right at the time when the magazines themselves were coming out because once the last issue of STAP was complete the license was finished - as it stood WotC gave them an extension to finish off the AP. As of now I seriously doubt Paizo could make a PDF of those issues as WotC owns all the rights and your not allowed to play with other peoples intellectual property...especially if you plan to sell the end result.
For many of the older issues the problem is that the law requires one to get permission of everyone that was part of the process. No one that contributed to those old issues signed off on their work being converted into some digital format (that did not even exist back then). At some point the contract one signed off on when submitting their work would have been changed to specify that one was granting the buyer the right to make digital versions as well as a print version and once that was done PDFs became standard fair. Presumably the earliest magazines with PDFs are also the ones where it was legally possible to make them available. Everything before that would require a phenomenally onerous task of tracking down every contributor and getting them to sign some kind of new contract.
Its just never going to happen.