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<blockquote data-quote="MartyW" data-source="post: 7673523" data-attributes="member: 6776795"><p>In my perfect world, a digital Dragon magazine would be available in a number of formats. I actually came to really like the 4e PDF Dragon and Dungeon issues. At first, the odd landscape layout annoyed me (I often forgot to print landscape), but as I perused more of the PDFs on mobile devices and on laptop screens, it just clicked for me. PDFs aren't the perfect delivery system, but they used them well during those years between 2009 and 2013.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, as I was saying, in a perfect world, the content would be available in an HTML5 container that would have defined CSS templates for the differing formats. People on a computer could view and print it like a nicely laid out PDF. People on a mobile device could view the content without all the difficulty normally associated with viewing PDFs on small screens. </p><p></p><p>One doesn't actually have to be "locked in" to one format or another. The technology and tools exist today. Believe it or not, this perfect world actually does exist at some companies, but it requires technologists and designers with the right tools that understand cross-platform digital publishing. </p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, that's never been WotC.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MartyW, post: 7673523, member: 6776795"] In my perfect world, a digital Dragon magazine would be available in a number of formats. I actually came to really like the 4e PDF Dragon and Dungeon issues. At first, the odd landscape layout annoyed me (I often forgot to print landscape), but as I perused more of the PDFs on mobile devices and on laptop screens, it just clicked for me. PDFs aren't the perfect delivery system, but they used them well during those years between 2009 and 2013. Anyway, as I was saying, in a perfect world, the content would be available in an HTML5 container that would have defined CSS templates for the differing formats. People on a computer could view and print it like a nicely laid out PDF. People on a mobile device could view the content without all the difficulty normally associated with viewing PDFs on small screens. One doesn't actually have to be "locked in" to one format or another. The technology and tools exist today. Believe it or not, this perfect world actually does exist at some companies, but it requires technologists and designers with the right tools that understand cross-platform digital publishing. Unfortunately, that's never been WotC. [/QUOTE]
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