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<blockquote data-quote="Alan Shutko" data-source="post: 5933271" data-attributes="member: 23694"><p>I'm in the process of digitizing my own RCD&D materials. I can come up with a pretty decent PDF with vector fonts (thank you Acrobat Clearscan) for the investment of about $20, previous camera equipment, and a couple hours of time. (And the <a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Bargain-Price-Book-Scanner-From-A-Cardboard-Box/" target="_blank">cardboard box book scanner</a> from Instructables.Admittedly, I haven't conquered the poster maps yet. </p><p></p><p>The quality I'm generating is better than the PDFs that TSR/Wizards sold as ESDs and cheaper to make. Technology has progressed that rapidly. They're definitely good enough to ship to Lulu or DTRPG as print on demand. </p><p></p><p>It's definitely at the point that you can do a cash outlay of $1k and bring on an intern for the summer and get an awful lot of good output. WotC may decide not to do it, but that speaks more to the inefficiency of their organization than the difficulty of the task.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alan Shutko, post: 5933271, member: 23694"] I'm in the process of digitizing my own RCD&D materials. I can come up with a pretty decent PDF with vector fonts (thank you Acrobat Clearscan) for the investment of about $20, previous camera equipment, and a couple hours of time. (And the [URL="http://www.instructables.com/id/Bargain-Price-Book-Scanner-From-A-Cardboard-Box/"]cardboard box book scanner[/URL] from Instructables.Admittedly, I haven't conquered the poster maps yet. The quality I'm generating is better than the PDFs that TSR/Wizards sold as ESDs and cheaper to make. Technology has progressed that rapidly. They're definitely good enough to ship to Lulu or DTRPG as print on demand. It's definitely at the point that you can do a cash outlay of $1k and bring on an intern for the summer and get an awful lot of good output. WotC may decide not to do it, but that speaks more to the inefficiency of their organization than the difficulty of the task. [/QUOTE]
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