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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lmpjr007" data-source="post: 827944" data-attributes="member: 8817">Let me see if I can respond to your questions one at a time.  I will be answering these questions in the point of view of being a publisher, not as a consumer.  First off, "The One Trick Pony" concept would be what all art is if you used it only once.  Most company know how expensive art is (roughly $100 a full page) and will try to re-use some of their pieces more than once if they can.  If you look at the original Deadlands Core book and their revised Core book you will some pieces of art have been used in both of the books.   If a company wanted to use an image as a background image, that they will place another image on top of it, they should have not have to pay out $100 a page to do so.  Would you rather pay $100 for a background piece that may or may not even bee seen or 25 cents for that piece?  Second, Adobe Acrobat is the most versatile form for Adobe products.  A PDF is considered to a vector based copy of an image, meaning that the image was created by a mathematic formula that is read by Acrobat, Photoshop or Illustrator.  When you zoom up on a PDF, there is no pixelation of the image.  If Photoshop created the images, it would be a pixel-based image and the more you zoom in the more it breaks up in to pixels.  If you enlarge a pixel-based image, by double it size for example, in Photoshop the program will ad pixels by making a sampling of the other pixels around it.  This can cause images to become blurry when you do this.  With Vector Based images like PDF and Illustrator, this will not happen due to the computation to make the art being based on math and not the image resolution.Third and most importantly, this type of product is best used for magazine publishers who need lots of art while at the same time keeping the cost for art down.  We want people to same money by using our product.</blockquote>

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