A cursory search seems to indicate nobody mentioned this, so forgive me if I'm wrong, but why are the remastered books so much larger than their original counterparts despite maintaining the same (or similar) page counts? For example, the new Dark Archive is 246MB, but the original is 34MB, while both have the same page count.
Not complaining, just curious what the additional content is.
Yeah that is absurdly huge for a PDF like this. They really need to run optimization on it.
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This isn't a brand new thing - the first volume of Shades of Blood and second volume of Triumph of the Tusk are each around 200MB despite having less than half the page count of Dark Archive.
I think it started shortly after Rage of Elements, which was famously over-compressed to the point that most of the illustrations had a very visibly grainy/pixelated look to them. It feels like perhaps Paizo went too far in the other direction after that. Either that or it is something like repeated images being repeated in the data when they shouldn't be.
But it is an issue for sure - on the weaker of my two computers, navigating some of these larger PDFs is actively laggy compared to the smaller PDFs that we used to get.
I recall this being somewhat common with Starfinder 1e PDFs as well, particularly APs. Several ranging between 100-300 MB. Catches me off guard every time I see it happen, and mildly annoying to make space for on some devices sometimes.
Huh, ok. Well, I just happened to be looking at that one in particular, didn't realize it's been a thing for a while. Thanks all.