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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LordEntrails" data-source="post: 9764435" data-attributes="member: 6804070">In the context we are talking, VTTs, yes I think they really are poor. For printing out something in a consistent way to hardcopy, sure, they are great. For archiving a print formatted document, they are wonderful. For a VTT source that should be searchable, and have re-usable content that can be formatted in a dozen different ways based upon demand/view source (reading for learning vs referencing a spell description vs applying automated game mechanics) they are horrible.See above, but do they really? Can I use that PDF to populate the class abilities that provide automation on my character sheet and in my VTT? No. Not when even in the same company they format the PDF (and the wording) differently from one product to the next. VTT's can be more than just a place to share reading resources, they can be fully fledged databases that remove the hassle of bookkeeping, if they don't rely upon PDFs for their content.Proprietary formats suck, because they are proprietary, but they can be more functional than a "standard" format that was designed to be used to print consistently. The possibility of standard vtt formats exists, look at the .uvtt map format. And even if such doesn't come (it won't in my lifetime) to VTT content, open xml formats are pretty portable. Converting between well architected xml formats isn't that hard.</blockquote>