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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drawmack" data-source="post: 830013" data-attributes="member: 4981">As a huge fan of pdf's I would like to offer some comments to the publishers.1) PDF offers you the ability to display one thing and print another. USE THIS IT'S THERE FOR A REASON. When I view your product I want each page to display on my screen without scrolling. So landscape it and make it so that at 100% it fits on an 800x600 res monitor. Also make it easily readable on my screen. 10 point font is almost never readable on the monitor when the res is cranked, however if you size it for 8x6 then I can blow it up and still have it be a page per screen and readable on screen. But print in portrait.2) Offering printable and non-printable versions is good. Bastion does this by simply removing the page borders on the printable version. I would go even further though and recommend a high speed/printable version. The smaller a file is the quicker it opens and navigates on older machines. My at the table laptop is a p650 with 32 megs of ram. Sorry your pdf aint getting used at my table it this little baby cannot quickly zoom through it. Not getting used at my table is 6 lost sales as my players will not purchase it if I'm not going to use it.3) taking the art out of the printable version does not mean redoing the format. Leave a blank box where  the art was - it gives me a place to take notes. How many pdf publishers are gamers? How many of you take notes on your books? Just yank the picture stick a little text at the top that says notes and I'd be happy.4) Link your friggin pdf properly. One of the major benefits of digital is that it's linked. Do not give me an index that isn't linked, do not give me a toc that isn't linked and ESPECIALLY do not give me internal cross references that are not linked. If I purchase an improperly linked pdf I will never purchase another from your company, hence why I've only purchased 1 nat20 pdf.5) Samples. When I'm going to purchase a print book I can go to my FLGS and check it out first. I do not have that option with a pdf so you must offer a sample. This sample should be exactly what I can expect from the purchased product including multiple versions if you're providing that in the purchased product. If I purchase a pdf from you and it is significantly different from the preview I will not be purchasing another one.</blockquote>

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