Can somebody tell WotC about the Basic Rules PDF size bloat?

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#1

Nesian42Ryukaiel

Aug 13, 2015 4:17:21

It's been months since the last update, when the non-printer-friendly file size got bloated about 15.713 (48,326,698 <- 3,075,557 bytes) times more than V0.2. It's especially absurd concerning that the page dimensions only increased around 5% (612x801 <- 594x783 pixels). The fact that its size nearly equals (49,049,660) a PDF that has a whopping 578 pages (Pathfinder CRB Lite version, by the way) with an actually smaller dimension (610x790) adds a grievous insult to injury.

 

While I tried to appeal about this to the devs on Twitter, as usual they completely missed my message. As I usually use a tablet PC (iPad Air) to use my Basic Rules, its quite frustrating that the more-soothing-to-eyesight (the blank white of the p.f. version actually irritates me) normal version has become an unnecessary load to my device. Can anything be done to make the dev team re-optimize the file?

#2

Rya.Reisender

Aug 13, 2015 4:20:40

Yeah, it's pretty bad, I just use the PF version now because the other one is completely unusable for me.

#3

Ath-kethin

Aug 13, 2015 13:50:23

Go to www.smallpdf.com.  Follow the instructions for reducing the size of a PDF.  The Basic Rules v 0.3 comes out of the process as a 7.37 MB file.

#4

Mistwell

Aug 13, 2015 14:13:08

Nesian42Ryukaiel wrote:
#5

Nesian42Ryukaiel

Aug 13, 2015 20:34:50

Rya.Reisender wrote: