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Wait! When you download here you don't get a .zip file with multiple versions of TYOV in it?

When hitting download, I'm sent to a page with two versions: ThousandYearOldVampire_2ndPrinting_Spreads.pdf (Aug 21 2020) and ThousandYearOldVampire_2ndPrinting_SinglePagesVer1p21.pdf (Sept 14 2020).

No sign of a third version! Am I missing something? I double checked my purchase email and it just sends me back there.

timhutchings3 years ago(+1)

OH MY GOSH! I dunno what happened but I think it's fixed now.

Rylenn3 years ago

It is indeed! Thanks!

(sidenote: I've tried to speed PDF loading up and found that converting into a pure image-based PDF is a good balance between aesthetics and usability)

timhutchings3 years ago

What tool are you using to make a flattened PDF? I'm not incompetent but I couldn't manage to flatten the TYOV PDFs.

Rylenn3 years ago

I'm using Linux (Pop_OS), so I'm not sure the info below is that helpful, if at all, under Windows. The tools are the following:

poppler-utils (specifically pdftocairo to convert the PDF to .jpg files), and then imagemagick (to convert the image files to a full PDF again).

Here are examples:

pdftocairo -jpeg ThousandYearOldVampire_SinglePages.pdf "[path to new folder containing output images]"

convert [above path]/*.jpg [destination/ouput].pdf

I'm not sure it's the simplest way to go, but at least it works.

I could just send you the files I've made this way? I haven't double-checked them but they look OK.

timhutchings3 years ago

Ah! I've been avoiding flattening the text. But maybe a flat-flat is better than nothing...

Thank you!

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