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So lets start with the quality of the PDF: It's great, absolutely fantastic. While they say it's a scanned PDF (and the PDF is in fact made up of whole page image files), it's crystal sharp and flawless, I have to believe this is digitally sourced from whatever DTP software was used for the original layout. Seriously, it's great.
Now the POD version: This is one of the most disappointing POD products I've come across from the D&D Classics line. I know the "standard color printing" used here by Lightning Source has some issues with color reproduction, particlarly accurately reproducing red, but this seems to be beyond that with serious desaturation of almost every color except yellow. The TSR logo which is reproduced so well in other reprints (Swamplight for example) is almost entirely lacking red and gold is seriously off color. The deep blue of the mystara logo is light, the gold of the emblem is almost white, and the reds are pastel and faded. This is on almost every use of color throughout the entire book, and given the lovely colors I've seen from other POD products (within the limitations of the medium) this seems like it most be some kind of colorspace conversion failure on the original asset. It's a real shame that seriously mars an otherwise perfect flawless reproduction of the book.
Then you have the lack of inclusion of the audio, something they were clearly able to do for First Quest. If a quick google search finds illegal copies with mp3's of the cd, why can't the official one?
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