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<blockquote data-quote="HellHound" data-source="post: 2241026" data-attributes="member: 3397">Since the delivery system in question runs through an emailed link, the right click and save feature does not work for a lot of email clients. For example, using eudora, the link is there, either I cut and paste it into a browser window (thus having to load the 40 meg file to the browser instead of downloading it and saving it) or I click on the link and it opens a new browser window and starts the same process.There might be a quick fix so every user can change his or her browser to not work this way, but wouldn't it just be easier to provide the files in a zip file and not have to educate the tens of thousands of buyers on how to reconfigure their browsers?Using zip files in this technique instead opens a new browser window which then immediately prompts me with a save / run option. As a footnote, this is far froma&nbsp; 'post-hoc' justification for the service. I -know- that zips don't work on PDF files well (but RAR does, some PDFs can see as much as a 40% reduction in file size through RAR compression). I also know that, as a vendor, I -HAVE- to follow the rules of the store I sell through. In the case of RPGnow, this means distributing the documents in zip format.Finally, a vast majority of our products contain multiple files in the archive, not a single PDF. However, this is not the primary reason at this time for the use of archives for all our distributions.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HellHound, post: 2241026, member: 3397"] Since the delivery system in question runs through an emailed link, the right click and save feature does not work for a lot of email clients. For example, using eudora, the link is there, either I cut and paste it into a browser window (thus having to load the 40 meg file to the browser instead of downloading it and saving it) or I click on the link and it opens a new browser window and starts the same process. There might be a quick fix so every user can change his or her browser to not work this way, but wouldn't it just be easier to provide the files in a zip file and not have to educate the tens of thousands of buyers on how to reconfigure their browsers? Using zip files in this technique instead opens a new browser window which then immediately prompts me with a save / run option. As a footnote, this is far froma 'post-hoc' justification for the service. I -know- that zips don't work on PDF files well (but RAR does, some PDFs can see as much as a 40% reduction in file size through RAR compression). I also know that, as a vendor, I -HAVE- to follow the rules of the store I sell through. In the case of RPGnow, this means distributing the documents in zip format. Finally, a vast majority of our products contain multiple files in the archive, not a single PDF. However, this is not the primary reason at this time for the use of archives for all our distributions. [/QUOTE]

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