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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Destil" data-source="post: 4373345" data-attributes="member: 1980">Anything more flexible than PDF would make me happy. RTD or doc would annoy me just as much, as you're trading one of the few strengths of PDF (good formating) for nothing. And when I say XML I mean markup, something that's very well hyperlinked and can be used in a browser or even have an API build around it. Mouse-over a condition like 'Prone' in a power statblock and you get a description of being prone, click on it and you're looking at the full entry. Being able to feed it into a Wiki or something for ease of houseruling would be idea, but I'm really just saying HTML. Something that can be either an E-Book or D20srd.org.Personally, I think they stick to PDF because of market inertia and a lack of understanding of digital media. The ability to use a more flexible / open / powerful format for information should be a real draw of going digital. But what I want is hard to even describe, while 'PDF' brings an image of a scanned book to mind.That and an illogical fear of piracy, given that it's no harder or easier to pirate than PDF.And as far as printing in black and white: then why not offer a nice high contrast pure black/white version. No art to drain ink, or even better some black and white line are like WAR's work in the 3.0 splatbooks. Downloading something that prints in greyscale poorly is a bad move if you just want printed info. This is the sort of weakness of the PDF format that drives me mad. Again, if I'm buying digital media, I want something that uses the advantages of digital media. Not a scan of a physical product with some bookmarks.</blockquote>

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