> woodelf
>
> 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.
If you have the full version of Acrobat you can turn it off and disallow
text extraction. Most people don't use it, but it is an option.
> 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.
That is exactly why I was opposed to the RTF release format, but I was
overruled. I liked the HTML much better. Ah, those were the days, when men
were men and tables were tables. :-)
-Brad
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