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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 3261961" data-attributes="member: 18832">Know much about producing a professional-looking PDF file, even one that's just text?James' description of the process still holds. Even though the job of the layout person has been reduced, it's still not a zero-effort process. Eric Boyd and Keith Baker still have to (separately, mind you) write their conversion notes for the Forgotten Realms and Eberron respectively. They still have to be edited, I'm assuming by James Jacobs himself (not that it matters). The still have to be laid out as PDFs, which is non-trivial if you want the damn thing to read well on the screen and print out well. Then they have to be posted to the website, a small but non-trivial effort.As James said, that's four steps. Four steps involving at least five people (two authors, editor, layout, website) with other jobs - I don't know about Eric, but Keith is a freelancer and works for a computer games company, Dungeon editors have Dungeon to edit, Paizo layout staff have Paizo magazines to lay out, and webmasters have a big website with forums and an online store to maintain.As a package, it seems like a small task. When you consider the place of this small task in the grand scheme of everything occupying the people involved, you can see why it's not exactly trivial.Or maybe you can't, which would kind of prove the point about you not knowing what you're talking about.</blockquote>