20 PDF's priced at $10 each sale...

[coyote6]

They were late additions, not included when the sale went live, but now Deadlands and Pirates of the Spanish Main are included in the sale.

edit: oops, sorry...I just noticed your disclaimer "that I don't have"

Those were the ones I was thinking of. I got one or both of 'em in previous sales, though I don't recall how much they were.

 

[roguerouge]

Thank you for the head's up, Inferno! - That DOES matter to me and I probably would have been so caught up in getting a bargain I wouldn't have noticed that Iron Kingdoms was copy/paste disabled. Usually, things don't even make it to my wish list if they are copy/paste disabled.

Guess I'll be spending that $10 on something else...

At least I'm in the right thread for suggestions.

Explain? I wouldn't be able to copy and paste into a Word doc to do house rules??

 

[Treebore]

I buy PDF's specifically to be able to copy/paste, so if its disabled I enable it. IF they don't like it I'll quit giving them my money for useless PDF's and just use my scanner.

Thieves are their problem, not mine, and I refuse to be treated like I am a thief. Let alone pay money for it.

Anyone know what companies have a standard policy of disabling copy/paste on their PDF's? That way I can start e-mailing to let them know what PDF's I would have bought if they didn't insist on convicting me as a thief without any kind of trial, let alone evidence.

I know AEG usually does it, and Kenzer, anyone else?

 

[Dice4Hire]

Nice selection of PDFs, very tempting.

But I'm sure I will never find players for those, so I guess I am out.

 

[Voadam]

Anyone know what companies have a standard policy of disabling copy/paste on their PDF's? That way I can start e-mailing to let them know what PDF's I would have bought if they didn't insist on convicting me as a thief without any kind of trial, let alone evidence.

I know AEG usually does it, and Kenzer, anyone else?

Thankfully, few companies cripple their pdfs' functionality by disabling copy paste.

Dangerous Denizens of Tellene from Kenzer is the only pdf of theirs I own and it is not copy disabled.

AEG's are not deliberatly copy/paste disabled, just most of theirs are giant crappy scans without quality OCR so you can't copy text. Ones with background pictures like Mercenaries has a lot of uncopyable text and some full color ones don't copy well while others with clearly visible text like the Accordlands Campaign Adventure book copied well for me.

Paradigm disabled copy/paste on their Arcanis CS but not on their others. I emailed them about lifting the restrictions on the CS one and they responded no it was "to protect their IP" and would stay in place.

Last I checked some Iron Kingdoms ones are copy protected (setting ones) and others are not (monsters).

 

[Voadam]

Explain? I wouldn't be able to copy and paste into a Word doc to do house rules??

Correct, Iron Kingdoms Character Guide is copy/paste disabled. If you want to email a kingdom or race description to a player in your game you will have to type in the information yourself instead of copying and pasting it from the pdf. Or send them a copy of the whole 400 page watermarked pdf with a note saying which page the appropriate information is on.

 

[Treebore]

Thankfully, few companies cripple their pdfs' functionality by disabling copy paste.

Dangerous Denizens of Tellene from Kenzer is the only pdf of theirs I own and it is not copy disabled.

AEG's are not deliberatly copy/paste disabled, just most of theirs are giant crappy scans without quality OCR so you can't copy text. Ones with background pictures like Mercenaries has a lot of uncopyable text and some full color ones don't copy well while others with clearly visible text like the Accordlands Campaign Adventure book copied well for me.

Paradigm disabled copy/paste on their Arcanis CS but not on their others. I emailed them about lifting the restrictions on the CS one and they responded no it was "to protect their IP" and would stay in place.

Last I checked some Iron Kingdoms ones are copy protected (setting ones) and others are not (monsters).

Yeah, investigating PDF's i have bought over this made me discover that for some reason my Adobe Reader was the problem, not Kenzer or AEG PDF's, I couldn't figure out what was turned on or off to make this a problems so I PDLed Fox It and at least that program allows me to copy/paste all the PDF's I have tried it on since.

As for Iron Kingdoms, I guess I'll scan my own needs from the books, and not waste my money on the PDF's. I don't know why they do this, I know people who "pirate" and they assure me they can copy/paste just fine. So as usual it seems like only us law abiding and paying customers get screwed.

 

[Nikosandros]

So as usual it seems like only us law abiding and paying customers get screwed.

That's almost always the case with any kind of copy protection scheme: it screws honest customers while the pirates laugh...

 

[Treebore]

That's almost always the case with any kind of copy protection scheme: it screws honest customers while the pirates laugh...

Yep.

Still, other pleasant news is that I posted this same link on other message boards, and if everyone who said they bought stuff did it via the link I provided I got ENWorld even more money for this month.

Plus I was reminded one of my buddies birthday is today, so I bought him the Castle Whiterock PDF, so ENWorld gets over $6 from me alone this month.

 

[Darrin Drader]

I was unaware of this thread yesterday when I suddenly decided to go check out City of Brass. Once I picked my jaw up off the floor, I put my order in. At $10, it was a no-brainer.