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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 9798737" data-attributes="member: 725">Congrats!The sample looks good, the maps look good enough and $14 is a great price for 700 pages of content. I've wishlisted it for later purchase (currently already working/reading too many thing).While I do like your maps, I strongly dislike the illustration you showed earlier in this thread. I think it would have been cool if you added reference notes to each section/page (think like providing sources in a textbook). I already have most of the pre-5e FR stuff and thought that the 3rd edition FR campaign book was probably one of the best products. But I really like how the D&D team organized each region and compressed the information as an introduction to that region. Something that treated the rest of the FR world in the same manner would have been a better companion to those two FR books. As would having the maps in the same style as the FR books. But I understand, you've been working on this for a long time and constantly rewriting just means the project will never be done.Note on using vector graphics in pdfs for illustrations and maps: Don't! Vector graphics is essentially math transformed into an image, every time you scroll in a pdf or turn a page, zoom in/out, etc. That math is run again, it slows down paging through a pdf, even on faster computers. For a project, many, many moons ago. I rebuilt simple graphics (like icon headers/footers), line art illustrations and maps into VG images, thinking it would be far crisper when you would zoom in, it was but the disadvantages were huge, even when optimizing the VG images, the images were smaller, but the math far harder on almost any system. Even today on something as powerful as an iPad Pro M5 I would expect slowdowns. I went back to the rasterized images instead of the VG images. You can get better compression results if you experiment a bit with different settings (what did you use for layout and pdf generation?).</blockquote>

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