Will wizards.com still use zipped PDFs?

[blargney the second]

I love the PDFs, but hate the Zips. With the overhaul that the site is going through, is somebody finally going to stop zipping everything up? It's useful for a collection of files, but really not necessary for single PDFs. The extra steps are an easily avoided annoyance...

 

[Sammael]

I think the main reason for zipped PDFs is so that they would not open inside the browser window automatically. This is highly annoying, and I have a Firefox extension which resolves the issue, but I imagine a lot of people are frustrated with it.

 

[frankthedm]

I love the PDFs, but hate the Zips. With the overhaul that the site is going through, is somebody finally going to stop zipping everything up? It's useful for a collection of files, but really not necessary for single PDFs. The extra steps are an easily avoided annoyance...

and PDFs don't even compress that well.

 

[Aloïsius]

I think the main reason for zipped PDFs is so that they would not open inside the browser window automatically. This is highly annoying, and I have a Firefox extension which resolves the issue, but I imagine a lot of people are frustrated with it.

Right clik...

ziped pdf are painful.

 

[Sammael]

Of course you can right click. But how many users actually do that?

I hate zipped PDFs as well, I am just saying that I understand why they are there...

 

[Moon-Lancer]

I right lick all the time. if you cant right lick, then zips are a good idea. some sits disable right click.

 

[Baumi]

What's so bad about Zips? I mean you don't even need a special pack-tool anymore...

 

[jinx crossbow]

I love the PDFs, but hate the Zips. With the overhaul that the site is going through, is somebody finally going to stop zipping everything up? It's useful for a collection of files, but really not necessary for single PDFs. The extra steps are an easily avoided annoyance...

I am pro ZIP. Because it needs longer to download the files than zu gunzip them.

Jinx

 

[Atlatl Jones]

I think the main reason for zipped PDFs is so that they would not open inside the browser window automatically. This is highly annoying, and I have a Firefox extension which resolves the issue, but I imagine a lot of people are frustrated with it.

Yes. And that probably saves a lot of bandwidth. If they just opened up in the browser window, people would have no incentive to download and save them, and refer to their downloaded file later. They could just click on the link and view it in their browser every time they want to look at it.

 

[blargney the second]

PDFs have pretty good built-in compression, so zipping them only saves about 1%. On 5 MB files, you're not even going to notice the time that takes. Seriously, it's negligible.

When a PDF opens in my browser, I can decide to save the file right then and there if it's useful. If it's not, I close the tab and won't grab it again.
-blarg