Last week I gave into nerdly craving a purchased one of those newfangled iPads. About an hour later I was already downloading the Dark Heresy core, Ascension, and Inquisitor's Handbook after purchasing them from DriveThru. Loaded them up, and was thrilled! Great quality on the PDFs, searchable text, links in text to get you to referenced pages, and glorious color art. Until I got to the first side box. It seems that the iPad can't handle the JPEG2000 image compression format. So instead of a separate darkened box with light text, all I can see is what might be light text on the normal light background.

When the same PDFs are viewed on a computer, there is no issue, so it's not a bad download. I also re downloaded the PDFs to make sure, and it's the same story each time. Now this might seem like a minor problem, and it is. I'm certainly not going to stop buying your products over this, I don't demand action, and I'm not starting any kind of petition. I just kindly request that with the next book you guys publish as a PDF, you change the compression options from JPEG2000 to normal JPG. Please.

indigo.inc said:

The issue you seem to be having with the PDFs on the iPad were fairly common from what I was told by testers I knew. I do have a similar; though not quite as extreme, problem with my own PDFs, but I use FoxIt rather than Adobe . If you haven't already, make sure the reader application is updated, check Apple to make sure there are no other updates you might be needing and then see if there is any advice on their forums that might help you to resolve the issue.

Otherwise, how do you like the iPad ? I haven't gotten a chance to dink around with one yet.

-=Brother Praetus=-

I'm using goodreader for the iPad, with all updates applied. According to their technical support people, since the app (and almost all others) use iPhone rendering, until the iPhone OS supports the image type, they can't either. There is a workaround apparently, but the method for PCs requires you to open and reprint the document in acrobat, something I just don't have.

As for how I like the iPad, well it's pretty much exactly what I bought it for. It handles even 400 pg PDFs full of images and text incredibly quickly, and even zoomed fully out is quite readable. The screen is gorgeous, with excellent resolution. I've noticed no eye fatigue yet, which was a concern of mine. I can game all day with it, battery life is over 12 hours of continues and strenuous use. Plus at 1.5 pounds, it's MUCH lighter than carrying my Exalted books with me.

i was thinking about getting an iPad for this exact reason plus for tabletop gaming. good to know about this little issue in advance.

try searching some forums for iPad i'm sure there're a lot of people trying to figure out the same problem you're having. good luck.

It might be that this is a manifestation of continued OS/app wars between the companies as a means of establishing "standards...?"

Kage

Yes, I get similar issues with Preview on OSX. Will try some other readers then, and see if that helps.

the image on page 6 of the inquisitors handbook is very pixelated in my version of the PDF.