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

["Jeff Yates" <jyates@poboxes.com>]

I'm finally back on my home computer, and can say the Cybergames hit me with
several e-mails within a few hours, and fixed things right good.  We may
have cause for gripes against Cybergames still (when's the webpage going to
be allowed an update? ;-) but not in this regard!

And as soon as I got the files, I printed them.  They came out fine for me.
One or two drawings were a little fuzzy, but not unusable by any means.  I
wound up using two different printers, and one was definitely better than
the other (brand new Lexmark vs very old Okidata).  And even tho I have a
cable modem, I still think the small file size is good.  I can download
fast, but I still don't have all that much disk space for storage.

Jeff Y.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hoe@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-hoe@gamerz.net]On Behalf Of
PEGShane@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 12:02 AM
To: hoe@gamerz.net
Subject: Re: [HOE] Re: [DL] Quality of Downloaded books (SHANE&PEG Folk)


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