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.