Kyle Mahaney

Oh yeah you were manually slicing them. My point was that they exist in the pdf of the actual book with the alpha channel background just as a lower resolution, clearly the assets exist and the NPC PDF should be updated to make that available at decent quality.

Yes exactly, those have the background as appropriately transparent while the images in the NPC PDF are a solid background. Where did you get them?

The NPC Portraits PDF has solid white backgrounds for each of the NPC portraits in the Arkham book, these same assets exist with the alpha layer transparent background in the actual book pdf but are significantly lower resolution. This is very frustrating for importing them into a VTT, something I expect is a primary use of the separate portraits pdf. Is this a mistake? Could the higher resolution assets with alpha transparency be made available?

This is resolved in 1.3

Thanks Mike, still seeing some very ugly scaling artifacts particularly on the silhouettes on pg 25, pg 9. The map before the introduction is very blurry. Handouts are borderline unreadable. All dramatically worse than the print version. This is "CHA23179_-_Regency_Cthulhu-v2.pdf (46.44 MB)"

This, throughout the PDF jpeg compression ratios appear to me significantly higher than other chaosium books. There are clear artifacts on basically every image, even in the elements of the layout design. Every image looks blurry and over compressed. For example on page 9 even a simple fector image has a sheen of artifacts on it. It looks terrible on a 12.9" iPad Pro in Goodreader. I know it's a struggle to balance a PDF that doesn't bog down low-end devices, but this is a bit absurd and looks much worse than every other Chaosium PDF I have, to the point of being distracting.

There is more CoC content in the works to be released soon but I'm not sure if anyone is doing Shadows over Stillwater currently. When I finish Harlem Unbound (probably in the next 2-3 weeks) I'll ask about doing it next if no one else is.