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Dark Archive

Hello Paizo team.
I wondered if you ever thinked about a release of some of your biggest PDF (Master guide, player guide and monster manual) in a lower quality version ? the Ipad is unable to manage them :-/

thanx again for the work !

Grand Lodge

Good Reader (http://www.goodiware.com/goodreader.html) works beautifully with the iPad and Paizo PDFs. No changes needed!

Dark Archive

I'll give a try ! thank you very much

edit:
ok , it was tried not as successfully as expected. the pdf are really "heavy".

The Exchange

r-Kelleg wrote:


ok , it was tried not as successfully as expected. the pdf are really "heavy".

Odd, what problems are you seeing? I have these PDF's on an iPad with Good Reader and I can flip pages with about a 1/2 second delay, much less if I use the crop feature so that I only display the centre of the page where the text is.

What size is your core rulebook PDF (shown on the right under the filename in Good Reader) and what size iPad do you have (also, WIFI or 3G), and what amount of that is still free?

Liberty's Edge

I asked for an artless PDF in this thread:
http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizoPublishing/pathfinder/pathfinderR PG/general/anyChanceOfAnArtlessPathfinderRPGPdf

Unfortunately on my Eee PC thePDF didn't work well - I eventually gave up and ordered a copy of the book.


I can confirm that I'm using Goodreader too on my iPad and have no problems reading the core Pathfinder PDF.


DigitalMage wrote:

I asked for an artless PDF in this thread.

Unfortunately on my Eee PC thePDF didn't work well - I eventually gave up and ordered a copy of the book.

Linked it for you.

Dark Archive

On the first try with the player guide and good reader we received an error message saying something like "this type of file is not recognized by good reader". then we upgraded good reader and now the file is recognized but it's very slow. A low quality version (or a screen version ala new dragon magazine) would be appreciate I think.

Silver Crusade

Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber

You can download the PRD website and use it offline on your Ipad/netbook if you find the PDF too slow.

Or you can just use it online if you have the capability :)

The Exchange

r-Kelleg wrote:

On the first try with the player guide and good reader we received an error message saying something like "this type of file is not recognized by good reader". then we upgraded good reader and now the file is recognized but it's very slow. A low quality version (or a screen version ala new dragon magazine) would be appreciate I think.

By 'Player Guide' do you mean the Core Rulebook?

What is the filesize of the PDF - I think that there have been a number of updates since the original release, one of which reduced the filesize considerably. If you post your filesize I can compare against my recent copy.

Another option is just to re-download it from your account.

If you happened to note which version of Good Reader you were using before you updated, I can check to see if this is a known problem which has been fixed. The error message that you saw shouldn't have happened.

Grand Lodge

I use Goodreader and the Core Rulebook on my iPhone without any reL problems. Page turns take about 2-3 seconds but it is a phone afterall. lol

Dark Archive

brock wrote:


By 'Player Guide' do you mean the Core Rulebook?

What is the filesize of the PDF - I think that there have been a number of updates since the original release, one of which reduced the filesize considerably. If you post your filesize I can compare against my recent copy.

Another option is just to re-download it from your account.

If you happened to note which version of Good Reader you were using before you updated, I can check to see if this is a known problem which has been fixed. The error message that you saw shouldn't have happened.

yes, the core rulebook, my mistake. it's the second printing that weight 93899 ko. About Good Reader, I'll check, thankyou

The Exchange

r-Kelleg wrote:


yes, the core rulebook, my mistake. it's the second printing that weight 93899 ko. About Good Reader, I'll check, thankyou

Ok. I'm using the 3rd printing, which is only 77 MB. Grab that from "My Downloads" and try it. I can bring up the front cover with a 2s delay (good for such a large image) and then flipping between pages is less than 1s.

Dark Archive

Pathfinder Pathfinder Accessories Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Starfinder Charter Superscriber
r-Kelleg wrote:
brock wrote:


By 'Player Guide' do you mean the Core Rulebook?

What is the filesize of the PDF - I think that there have been a number of updates since the original release, one of which reduced the filesize considerably. If you post your filesize I can compare against my recent copy.

Another option is just to re-download it from your account.

If you happened to note which version of Good Reader you were using before you updated, I can check to see if this is a known problem which has been fixed. The error message that you saw shouldn't have happened.

yes, the core rulebook, my mistake. it's the second printing that weight 93899 ko. About Good Reader, I'll check, thankyou

It might be worth loading up the one page per chapter version. Although it's more space overall, each file is smaller, so should load better in a reader.

Grand Lodge

yep I have that as well, and is what I use on my iPhone...

BTW Goodreader has a cool feature to pull out the text and make it a plain text like page for easier reading. MUCH easier to read than a PDF on a phone. Now for an iPad I doubt that will be an issue but handy on a phone.

Lantern Lodge Customer Service & Community Manager

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