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    JTAS 13-18 - Now Here!

    You do this during the kickstarter or after the rewards are delivered on DT? Might also consider starting doing that tbh:unsure:
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    JTAS 13-18 - Now Here!

    😅 Obvs I'm not very good at jokes 😆
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    JTAS 13-18 - Now Here!

    Wow, that was a J-3 speed reaction!!! 🤩 Just got the links in my DT inbox. Very awesome and a big thanks! Yet another reason why you Mongoose peeps are awesome. 😎
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    JTAS 13-18 - Now Here!

    Hi @MongooseMatt, any chance of this still happening? Not that I haven't been happy with the KS volumes, but last time we backers also got our volumes through a monolithic KSJTAS2 bundle at DriveThru that never got updated further once all volumes were in there. Meaning they never got to the...
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    The Singularity Kickstarter is Live!

    👆 What Vormaerin said. Third time that digital-only completionists/backers are basically given the finger. Not amused tbh 😠
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    Does anyone have or know a repository of .png files for Traveller for use on Roll20.com as Tokens and Maps?

    Assuming this implies you are not using macOS or a flavour of Linux; these days you can run a full-functional Linux-subsystem on Windows 11 (WSL), so unless you're adverse of running command line programs you wouldn't necessarily need to learn a different OS. Just the basics to learn how to...
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    Does anyone have or know a repository of .png files for Traveller for use on Roll20.com as Tokens and Maps?

    Why not extract the images from your legally owned PDFs yourself? If you have access to a *nix system you can easily do this with the pdfimages utility through the CLI: First navigate to the folder where you want the images to be extracted to run the following command: pdfimages -all...
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    Solution to Traveller PDFs not showing images in PDFKit based renderers (macOS and iOS)

    I only have access to the drivethru files for these unfortunately, so cannot look into this myself. When you use PDF Squeezer, are you making sure that you also tick the 'Force image recrompression'? Otherwise images that are below your DPI threshold will not be changed to the requested colour...
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    Solution to Traveller PDFs not showing images in PDFKit based renderers (macOS and iOS)

    No, mine is the direct download version from the author's site. As a rule I try to avoid App Store versions of applications if a direct download version is available, as the former often have sandbox limitations in how they can approach system files/underlying system processes etc. That said...
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    Solution to Traveller PDFs not showing images in PDFKit based renderers (macOS and iOS)

    Well, in the meantime you can always find the processed file (whether inflated or shrunk) at the following location as long as you don't quit PDF Squeezer: ~/Library/Containers/com.witt-software.PDF-Squeezer/Data/tmp/ Just copy it out and rename.
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    Solution to Traveller PDFs not showing images in PDFKit based renderers (macOS and iOS)

    Well, it seems if you reduce the image quality to 99% you will almost always get an output that is smaller than the original PDF, with imperceptible image quality difference. Even at the 300dpi setting, as this basically only says that any image with a resolution >300DPI should be downsampled to...
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    Solution to Traveller PDFs not showing images in PDFKit based renderers (macOS and iOS)

    Just did a quick check and indeed Cairo converts the whole lot to png (without any associated colourspace), and it seems to be generating a lot of extraneous images... Mongoose pdfs have a lot of white Jpeg and JPG2000 background images, which I presume live as as a sort of background under the...
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    Solution to Traveller PDFs not showing images in PDFKit based renderers (macOS and iOS)

    Well, I given the aliasing and subtle colour shifts I presumed it was the conversion rather than the compression (in which case I would rather expect typical block artefacting). So I did a test where I twice 'compressed' a pdf with image quality at 100% and max image dpi at 150 (none of the...
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    Solution to Traveller PDFs not showing images in PDFKit based renderers (macOS and iOS)

    Well whadaya know! Been using this application for years and never thought about using this functionality for this reason…🤯 It does indeed fix the missing images issue while keeping all internal links and TOC metadata intact 🤩🤩🤩 Live and learn I guess. Only thing I am a bit less thrilled about...
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    The Great Apple PDF Update

    Very nice that the issue is rectified! :) Two small questions though: 1) For those of us original Companion owners that received the updated 2024 Companion as a complementary gesture, will that latter one be updated too (here and at DTRPG)? 2) Not sure if you are also planning to update the...
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