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<blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 5253292" data-attributes="member: 21076"><p>I will likely eat these words in a few more years as bandwidth continues to increase (i.e. some of us live in rather rural areas and our broadband is falling behind the city folk) and computing speeds continue to increase, but I don't think I want a lot of interactivity in my PDF files. I like being able to search them and I like a bookmarked table of contents. I don't really want embedded videos and such.</p><p></p><p>PDF forms for character sheets are well and good, but I can find those for most systems I play, so I don't feel I am lacking for that either.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hopefully there will be continued improvements, but for the moment there are still certain sites that work better in one browser versus another.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't have much desire to make any of these modifications. I don't have any PDFs where I think I can do a better job formatting than the original designer. And I'd rather spend my time reading and prepping for a game than re-editing the sourcebook I am using.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't make enough house rules to warrant this. Typically it is easier for me to just create an appendix if I am going to make house rules and add it as an additional file to note these changes. I don't house rule a lot though.</p><p></p><p>Likely it just sounds like our usage patterns vary significantly with you wanting to customize sourcebooks when they are released whereas I treat them more like actual books that I wouldn't necessarily be customizing either.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Good point for having your cake and eating it to. *If* the conversion from html to PDF can handle creating the PDF with bookmarks and retain the find functionality. Otherwise the conversion process stripped a lot of what was of value to the PDF format, which currently is my preferred format.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IronWolf, post: 5253292, member: 21076"] I will likely eat these words in a few more years as bandwidth continues to increase (i.e. some of us live in rather rural areas and our broadband is falling behind the city folk) and computing speeds continue to increase, but I don't think I want a lot of interactivity in my PDF files. I like being able to search them and I like a bookmarked table of contents. I don't really want embedded videos and such. PDF forms for character sheets are well and good, but I can find those for most systems I play, so I don't feel I am lacking for that either. Hopefully there will be continued improvements, but for the moment there are still certain sites that work better in one browser versus another. I don't have much desire to make any of these modifications. I don't have any PDFs where I think I can do a better job formatting than the original designer. And I'd rather spend my time reading and prepping for a game than re-editing the sourcebook I am using. I don't make enough house rules to warrant this. Typically it is easier for me to just create an appendix if I am going to make house rules and add it as an additional file to note these changes. I don't house rule a lot though. Likely it just sounds like our usage patterns vary significantly with you wanting to customize sourcebooks when they are released whereas I treat them more like actual books that I wouldn't necessarily be customizing either. Good point for having your cake and eating it to. *If* the conversion from html to PDF can handle creating the PDF with bookmarks and retain the find functionality. Otherwise the conversion process stripped a lot of what was of value to the PDF format, which currently is my preferred format. [/QUOTE]
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