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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 4755840" data-attributes="member: 2209">We hear different things then. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I know the 4e prerelease printer pdfs that were leaked were huge files without useable bookmarks but that it was not long before scanned in copies got smaller sizes, bookmarks, errata incorporated, etc.I bought the 3e spell compendium pdf when it was on sale. It is a huge file (86 mb or something like that) that takes forever to turn from page to page on my computer and doing searches is painful. It pains me that there are better smaller file pirated versions out there that would be easier to use.A good test would be to check the quality of a pirated 3.5 Monster Manual I as there was never a pdf from WotC for that product. My understanding is that there are good quality 3e core book pirate pdfs with searchable text, small file sizes, and great bookmarks, even though WotC never released them as pdfs.I can't speak to the 4e pdfs, if they have improved or not over my experience with spell compendium, I never bought any 4e stuff and I can't jump onto rpnow anymore to see the listing of how many mb the different files were. And for old edition D&D pdfs? Depends at which point in the scanning program they were as the early program ones had a lot of work put into them resulting in small files, searchable text, and good bookmarks. Then they outsourced the scanning on the cheap resulting in huge files, poor text scanning, and random amounts of bookmarking. Better than nothing but I bet there are better pirated versions existing. I'd have to double check if I can even copy any text in my pdf of the Rules Cyclopedia, I seem to remember that was one I couldn't in.</blockquote>

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