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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arnix" data-source="post: 471819" data-attributes="member: 5521">I figure its time to hear from me.  I currently am not a d20 publisher, though that is in the works now, but I do work for a print/online publishing company.I have been toying with many ideas on how to do a couple of things with pdfs.  A major concern for me is printing speed. Something I have seen on too many occasions, are pdfs with fancy page wrappers and in-depth artwork interspersed with the text.  This makes printing take ages.As many of you know, the more images and tables that a pdf contains, the slower that it will print on the average person's printer.  This leads me to believe that a pdf could contain a "printer friendly" version of the document as well.   Now this will lead easily into a larger (file size) pdf, but is that acceptable for a product that you can actually print in a short period of time?  Is the trade off of greater download time worth the quicker print time? This steps on one the big selling points, for some people at least, of pdfs, the ability to put nearly unlimited artwork of excellent quality into a document.  I know that I have several friends who will not buy products that have crappy artwork or bad layouts (judging a book by its cover, anyone?).There needs to be a compromise.  My alternate idea, was simple.  Seperate the beauty from meat.  Allow the user to print the text sections seperate from the artwork.  This way they can say print pages 2-20, 23-30, and 32.  The pages will print quickly and at a reasonable quality.  Then iff (yes the double ff is there intentionaly),  a person feels the need to print the images, they can print the images in whatever quality that they desire, while still being able to print the text in black and white at high speed.Thoughts anyone?Arnix (tm)</blockquote>

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