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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glade Riven" data-source="post: 5432952" data-attributes="member: 86468">A quick history of the digital printing landscape - Adobe wasn't always the king. A program called Quark used to reign supreme, but the software was counter-intuitive and a pain to use. Adobe came along and made InDesign, which is better in every aspect. The transition from Quark to PDF happened between 2000 & 2005. It's probably a good bet that WotC converted fairly early to PDF as their standard for digital archives. TSR...who knows. There are a lot of file formats that are not used and supported anymore, with the standardization that has happened and various software businesses that have died. And who knows whether or not the TSR stuff was saved in good quality scans or not. Sometimes things happen and the only thing on file are the poor quality scans that were put on the net. We don't know. If it was, then transitioning it to POV is cheap. If it wasn't saved in a high quality scan (300 ppi+), then you have to pay someone to scan it. If the quality of the original scan is crap, you either have to rescan it or pay a lot of money to have someone clean up the scans (even then, some things are not salvagable). If the hard copies are of a good enough quality to scan it in without paying someone to go through and clean them up by removing pencil marks, stains, etc. - then it may be cost effective to POV these products. That is a lot of "ifs."</blockquote>