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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 4638278" data-attributes="member: 13892">The question "When will PDFs be over?" is pretty clear. In the context of your post, Jeff, it couldn't feasibly mean anything other than "When do PDFs go away?" (also, given your other negative sentiments about PDFs, I find it highly unlikely that you genuinely intended it to mean anything else). Your positive 'talk' about PDFs was limited to the following remark: This one bit of praise sandwiched between such gems as "I hate reading PDFs" and "Sure, I can read PDFs in Windows, but again it's a PITA unless I'm willing to devote all or most of a monitor to it." is not effectively concealing your bias as well as you think it is. In fact, the phrase "damning with faint praise" was coined specifically to describe such affectations. Well, for starters, in the thread title you ask when PDFs will be over — not when "the era of PDF as the de facto standard for ebooks" will be over. You then go on to tell us that you "hate reading PDFs" and then incredulously state that you "don't understand" how or why it's the industry standard electronic document format. Initially, you explain that your failure to understand is based on a single area in which PDFs could use improvement (i.e., easy viewing on mobile phones and similarly small devices). You then infer that, because of this single shortcoming, PDFs are overrated and undeserving of being the industry standard for electronic file distribution. Finally, you wrap with a subtle assertion that PDFs are no good for displaying documents on normal (i.e., Windows) computer monitors, either — before specifically stating that you hope PDFs aren't the dominant form of electronic file distribution in e-publishing for much longer. After reflecting, I have no idea how I ever came to the conclusion that you hate PDFs and want them to go away. Oh wait. Yes I do. You told me that you hate PDFs and want them to go away. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/erm.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":erm:" title="Erm    :erm:" data-shortname=":erm:" />See? You want PDFs to go away. You want them to go away, apparently to be replaced with an as yet unnamed (and, AFAIK, non-existant) superior file format. I'm curious, Jeff — what file format provides the flexibility, ease of use, and complex aesthetic qualities that a PDF can while remaining commercially viable? I (and apparently the vast majority of publishers on Earth) am blissfully unware of such a file format. I mean, seriously, if you can single-handedly save the entire RPG e-publishing market, why hold back?!? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></blockquote>

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