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<blockquote data-quote="darjr" data-source="post: 7724646" data-attributes="member: 52905">[MENTION=2525]Mistwell[/MENTION] are you really asking these questions? First, no he can't just port it over. The code is proprietary. IF it was a PDF he could write his very own reader. But not some custom proprietary app. Is Curse going to make their app open source to be ported? I'd wager on never.Use the reader of his choice? OF COARSE it's something you can DO. How about read it on an epaper reader like a kindle? A kindle will never run this app. But it can read a PDF. Or a braile translator that reads PDF. This app won't do that. I'll bet this app won't even support text to speech.And as far as being speculative? Weren't you just having issues with a vendor because of old broken software? Software being abandoned and locking up data isn't a new problem and it's not about to go away. A PDF doesn't really have that problem. Their is copious documentation out there about PDF and quite a few open source example reader implementations. A new one could be written post haste if all other readers were abandoned or no longer worked on current hardware. This software from curse and others not only can't make that claim at the moment, they very likely never ever will.His points are solid and I think your response is a stretch even for you.It boils down to WotC doesn't release these in PDF because they won't, and that's their prerogative. Despite all the spilled ink, I don't really fault them. It's their stuff. All I can do is keep pointing out why I want PDF and why it's a good idea.I have a suspicion that they agree with me on many fronts, hence so many different ways to get the data out there that creep up to being ebook or PDF like. I think they'll get there. I hope so anyway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="darjr, post: 7724646, member: 52905"] [MENTION=2525]Mistwell[/MENTION] are you really asking these questions? First, no he can't just port it over. The code is proprietary. IF it was a PDF he could write his very own reader. But not some custom proprietary app. Is Curse going to make their app open source to be ported? I'd wager on never. Use the reader of his choice? OF COARSE it's something you can DO. How about read it on an epaper reader like a kindle? A kindle will never run this app. But it can read a PDF. Or a braile translator that reads PDF. This app won't do that. I'll bet this app won't even support text to speech. And as far as being speculative? Weren't you just having issues with a vendor because of old broken software? Software being abandoned and locking up data isn't a new problem and it's not about to go away. A PDF doesn't really have that problem. Their is copious documentation out there about PDF and quite a few open source example reader implementations. A new one could be written post haste if all other readers were abandoned or no longer worked on current hardware. This software from curse and others not only can't make that claim at the moment, they very likely never ever will. His points are solid and I think your response is a stretch even for you. It boils down to WotC doesn't release these in PDF because they won't, and that's their prerogative. Despite all the spilled ink, I don't really fault them. It's their stuff. All I can do is keep pointing out why I want PDF and why it's a good idea. I have a suspicion that they agree with me on many fronts, hence so many different ways to get the data out there that creep up to being ebook or PDF like. I think they'll get there. I hope so anyway. [/QUOTE]

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