>Right. Lets take PDF as example. PDF is certainly leader how most of
>RPG materials in D20/OGL orbit
>are distributed nowadays. Reality check � no one by default can
>exercise their right to modify of
>PDF data. PDF is not editable without sort of expensive tool from
>Adobe! Therefore for months now
>lots of released OGC materials can�t be modified unless the receiver
>of OGC *pay money for editor to
>one particular company*.
not quite true. you can select text and copy and paste from a PDF to
another file. which is a huge improvement over the reusability of,
say, the Creature Compendium. you'd have to scan or retype that to
reuse the material.
At 23:19 -0700 5/31/01, Max Skibinsky wrote:
>Here we go again. Ryan, there is no such thing as �common viewable
>format� for ALL computer users.
frex, the RTF files that the SRD is being released in are a real pain
for me to view. the RTF format must have been extended in the last
year or two, or MSWord breaks the format, because i get lots of
garbage (with the text buried in there somewhere, if i look for it)
whenever i open RTF files produced in the last year or so (since my
software was authored). tables, in particular, are broken, with
every cell or row break being replaced with either a linebreak or a
page break (depending on i know not what; it's always one or the
other for a given file), which makes it very hard to figure out what
goes where.
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