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Re: [RE: [HOE] Re: [DL] Quality of Downloaded books (SHANE&PEG Folk)]
Still, the optional size would be nice.
Ogy Joe
"Jeff Yates" <jyates@poboxes.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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