Re: [HOE] Re: [DL] Quality of Downloaded books (SHANE&PEG Folk)

[PEGShane@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/2/2001 1:22:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
jyates@qlinktech.com writes:


> This thread has been tagged SHANE for a while.  I hope he's still looking at
> it, and that Cybergames gives him some good info so he can pass it to us.
> We fans are still supporting PEG as best we can, it just seems that
> Cybergames is thwarting all our efforts to buy PEG material ;-)
>
> Jeff Y.



Shane is always watching. ;) Unfortunately, I don't know anything about the 
situation. We put the files on a CD and send them to Cybergames. EVERYTHING 
else is handled on their side. I didn't even know when the books were going 
up.

I'm sure things will be taken care of--most of the staff out there was off 
until today (Tuesday). Give 'em a little time. It's new technology and there 
will certainlly be some bugs to work out.

As to Dirk's question about the resolution of the files, that's done entirely 
on our side here at PEG. WE downsample the resolution to 150 dpi to get the 
file size in the 7 meg range. Anything bigger and you alienate the 56K modem 
crowd. I have suggested making both low res and high res versions available, 
then the consumer would choose. I'm sure we'll do that eventually. Give me a 
few days and I'll see if I can't get those versions to those of you who 
ordered the earlier 150 dpi versions.

For those of you who aren't familiar with these terms, we normally print 
illustrations in books at 300 dpi (or 400 for color). For downloadable books, 
we reduce the "dots per square inch) to 150. It looks pretty good on our 
printers and makes for manageable file sizes. TSR/WOTC uses 72 DPI for their 
products (which is screen resolution).

Shane