Recent content by BangsNaughtyBits

I normally run on FG but I could break down and run on R20 if you still want testers. Have to learn the back end but it shouldn't be too hard. @MadBeardMan !

The 2300AD Aerospace Engineers' Handbook PDF on DriveThru has the issue, though I cannot speak to the Mongoose official PDF. The version provided on Bundle of Holding seemed fine. It wasn't the current errata level, though. Most files in that bundle were older errata. !

On Mac? See https://forum.mongoosepublishing.com/threads/solution-to-traveller-pdfs-not-showing-images-in-pdfkit-based-renderers-macos-and-ios.124098/ and install the Ghostscript and or Cairo apps. Don't use the first command line shown, the better GhostScrip command line is down the first...

The version on DriveThru is fine. I noted the recent Bundle of Holding for 2300AD did come with a bugged version of Tools For Frontier Living. And the bundle had a number of older versions of the PDFs sans errata but I find it hard to complain about that too much. !

@MongooseMatt The 2300AD: Aerospace Engineers' Handbook on DriveThruRPG seems to currently have the Apple PDF issue. Not sure about the official Mongoose PDF. !

The new JTAS 13-18 volume kickstarter just recently reached a goal to also include a complete index booklet of the entire JTAS series.

Hmmm, new version of the PDF dropped on July 19... Edit: and a new release on July 24.

Looks like Mongoose just pushed out new versions of JTAS 7-12 out to DriveThru. I assume this also happened on Mongoose's site. With the exception of JTAS_-_Volume_10_May24 the blue cover art is missing. I think they need to do another round of processing or restore the previous versions...

EDIT: Fixed at DriveThru and BoH as of May 13. Looks fine. About the time I reported this above, Allen with Bundle of Holding was told they will have it resolved Monday. I assume DriveThru will get updated once these are reprocessed. The previous files as of yesterday worked fine from...

EDIT: Fixed at BoH and DriveThru as of May 13. Be aware that the updated DriveThru JTAS 1-6 files are now borked for PDFKit where they were working fine yesterday. I do not have the official from Mongoose files but the Bundle of Holding for JTAS was just updated and the updated JTAS 1-6 files...

Yep. Just copied these settings to double check, then compressed the file some so I didn't have to go digging for the file. Cover in particular remains white under PDFKit. The settings I was using did work with other PDFs from the list of usual Mongoose suspects so... The variation from...

I was able to access the path you provided using the App Store version to access the PDFs working folder. The PDFs had randomly assigned names but were as you described. !

Oddly, there was a Bundle of Holding with JTAS 1-12 today. Even though the last update for some of these is back in 2019, volumes 1-6 have missing covers using PDFKit. The watermarked PDFs from DriveThru do not have a similar problem. PDF Squeezer 4 from the Mac App Store doesn't fix the...

Or a revision/printing version in the text. Another publisher just hard implemented a consistent versioning system in their releases and though their core rules went from a Version Six to 5.0, they are now doing proper increments in both their PDF and physical releases. Much easier than...

The CSC Compressed PDF also fails to load on Mac via Preview or Foxit Reader. They use different PDF rendering engines. Reports not PDF or corrupt. !