Zaister |
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And yes, downloading here is not the most modern process, but I'll take a dated or complicated way to download where I can re-download my files as often and as long as I want over a modern site which then only lets me download my stuff for half a year and/or three times any day.
Zaister |
Zaister wrote:So, when I get my monthly new downloads which is probably from six to a dozen new files I want to download, I go to the My Downloads page amd right-click on every link I want to download to open in a new tab. About half of the files will start to download within a few seconds. For the rest I go to the through the tabs and click again on the links that haven't started downlaoding yet and they will start. This process has never taken me more than 5 minutes all in all.That's what I do on my PC.
On an Apple device, it's not quite so easy.
After downloading, I rename the files and sort thim into shared folders on my PC. Then I sync these folders in PDF Expert on my iPad. Very simple setup. PDF Expert even lets you do indexed full text searches over the whole library.
Rawr! |
Rawr! wrote:After downlaoding I rename the files and sort thim into shared folders on my PC. Then I sync these folders in PDF Expert on my iPad. Very simple setup. PDF Expert even lets you do indexed full text searches over the whole library.Zaister wrote:So, when I get my monthly new downloads which is probably from six to a dozen new files I want to download, I go to the My Downloads page amd right-click on every link I want to download to open in a new tab. About half of the files will start to download within a few seconds. For the rest I go to the through the tabs and click again on the links that haven't started downlaoding yet and they will start. This process has never taken me more than 5 minutes all in all.That's what I do on my PC.
On an Apple device, it's not quite so easy.
Oh yeah, I've used shared folders to transfer files from my PC to my iPad.
It's just when I'm at a convention and I want to download a couple of files, it becomes very cumbersome.
Zaister |
Oh yeah, I've used shared folders to transfer files from my PC to my iPad.
It's just when I'm at a convention and I want to download a couple of files, it becomes very cumbersome.
Well, with my method I have all my files on all my devices at all times.
Mark Seifter Designer |
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I've removed a series of posts. Please don't advocate piracy, make personal attacks, use analogies to trivialize spousal abuse, use autism or learning disabilities as an insult, or marginalize rape by joking about it. Let's try to work together to make our community a friendlier place. If this thread continues to have issues, I'll have to lock it for Tuesday when everyone's back at the office.
R_Chance |
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Mark Seifter wrote:I've removed a series of posts. Please don't advocate piracy, make personal attacks, use analogies to trivialize spousal abuse, use autism or learning disabilities as an insult, or marginalize rape by joking about it.Wow, just wow.
That's what I thought. In one thread over a fairly short period...
Drahliana Moonrunner |
Gary Teter wrote:My theory is we should shove every new PDF you get into your Dropbox account as they're granted. Or something like that.Wow. Awkward. I mean, the license doesn't allow us to disseminate the PDFs we buy and uploading to cloud storage is literally sharing with another (corporate) entity.
No you're not, because it's still the private storage of the person buying the PDFs.
Anguish |
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Anguish wrote:No you're not, because it's still the private storage of the person buying the PDFs.Gary Teter wrote:My theory is we should shove every new PDF you get into your Dropbox account as they're granted. Or something like that.Wow. Awkward. I mean, the license doesn't allow us to disseminate the PDFs we buy and uploading to cloud storage is literally sharing with another (corporate) entity.
That was a long time ago and I don't want to beat a dead horse, but "private storage" and "cloud storage" are mutually exclusive.
RJGrady |
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It feels like to me that as you purchase a PDF, the machine should start personalizing it for you, under the assumption you will download it at some point.
I should be able to download several titles at once. At present, I can't always download ONE file in one click. :)
Of course, the process could be improved considerably by just not watermarking stuff.
The file names are terrible. The first thing I do when I extract a new Paizo PDF is add a brief title to the end of the file name.
Skeld |
It feels like to me that as you purchase a PDF, the machine should start personalizing it for you, under the assumption you will download it at some point.
This is a bad idea. It's not efficient because you're processing and storing files that you have no reason to process and store (ie. no one has asked for it yet). It's just unused data, sitting there taking up processor time and storage space.
I should be able to download several titles at once. At present, I can't always download ONE file in one click. :)
You can already do this: right-click, open in new tab. I've been doing this for years. It's basically the same thing Zaister outlined up-thread.
Of course, the process could be improved considerably by just not watermarking stuff.
I can't imagine Paizo doing this. Besides, the personalization process usually takes all of ~10-30 seconds, and sometimes it's immediate.
The file names are terrible. The first thing I do when I extract a new Paizo PDF is add a brief title to the end of the file name.
I agree that the file names aren't descriptive and I change them immediately. It's pretty obvious that the filenames aren't meant to be end-user friendly since they're akin to product codes or SKUs.
-Skeld