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As a lone watcher staring down the vast weekend, I salute those of you who have been freed!


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Given the amount of fire Paizo has been under in the last few months I think it was the right call to respond to open concerns from one of their freelancers posted on the blog of one of Paizo's more well known former employees. If they'd let it sit and fester it would've just been more damning to their already damaged public image. Overall this move has probably done more good than bad in the eyes of their most important stakeholders.


There was an update on this on the product page for the 4th book of the AP for those who haven't seen it. Basically they're aware of the issue and it won't be a problem starting from the next AP.


Thank you for your response! It's good to know that the issue has been resolved going forward (at least starting with the next AP), and I'm glad Paizo is transparent about the situation. I appreciate that the images from the PDFs were never intended for use as image distribution but the ability to easily make use of those images has, both for me and many GMs I know, become a major selling point of the PDFs so I'm glad to hear there won't be any restrictions on this.


Steel_Wind wrote:
SeriousSydney wrote:

I don't believe that this is something intentional, mainly because it isn't affecting any other Paizo products that I've seen. My best guess is that because these books are prepared well in advance of release, the issue was simply missed until the first book dropped, and they haven't rectified it yet. I'm assuming that at worst this will continue for the entire AP but I sincerely hope that is not the case.

That being said, it is ABSOLUTELY an issue that must be fixed and ideally rectroactively corrected. I am of a similar opinion that I would rather save £50 and buy the PDF on release than get a product slightly early that is borderline unusable for my purposes.

To be clear, this issue did not begin with the PDFs for Fly Free or Die. It began with Vol 1 of The Devastation Ark.

I also would prefer to think this was the result of oversight and was non-intentional. I have not seen this behavior from a Paizo PDF other than in back issues of Dungeon and Dragon Magazine.

But it's been seven months now. The issue has been drawn to their attention. They know.

Let's hope they fix it.

I'm looking at my PDFs for Devastation Ark now and I'm not seeing the same issues as in the current AP. There are some pages where the image is not selectable but it can still be extracted as a solid image. I didn't even realise that was a problem until you brought it to my attention and it wasn't enough of a problem to prevent me extracting the images the first time around.

The Fly Free or Die issues make almost all of the images impossible to extract without either manually recombining the piecemeal pictures or carving away the surrounding text using an image editor. This is a serious hamper to the usability.


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I don't believe that this is something intentional, mainly because it isn't affecting any other Paizo products that I've seen. My best guess is that because these books are prepared well in advance of release, the issue was simply missed until the first book dropped, and they haven't rectified it yet. I'm assuming that at worst this will continue for the entire AP but I sincerely hope that is not the case.

That being said, it is ABSOLUTELY an issue that must be fixed and ideally rectroactively corrected. I am of a similar opinion that I would rather save £50 and buy the PDF on release than get a product slightly early that is borderline unusable for my purposes.


Hi,

I would appreciate if you could cancel my Starfinder Accessories Subscription as soon as is reasonably possible please.

Thanks


Maps are easy enough it's true, but when the NPC and monster images are all surrounded by text and suddenly you have to remove that for every single one because you can no longer extract it as a single image that's quite a bit of extra work.


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Gonna just throw a +1 in here for getting the pdf image issues fixed for the next AP at the very least. Separate maps are helpful but don't solve the underlying problem.


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Frustratingly the PDF image issues are persisting, at this point I can only assume it will continue for the entire AP. Conceptually this AP is great but the amount of effort required to extract images for VTT use has moved this from the AP I was most excited about to the one I'm least excited about. Otherwise the stuff in this book is pretty cool!


I believe it'll probably one of the "Five new species never before seen in Starfinder." Maybe this will be the product that brings in some more legacy races?