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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Rend on December 26, 2009, 11:10:46 PM

Poll
Question: Should the files be converted to PDF's?
Option 1: Yes
Option 2: No
Title: Downloading fictions on an apple device.
Post by: Rend on December 26, 2009, 11:10:46 PM
Before this poll is taken into consideration AT ALL. The point is to convert the fic's in the download section to PDF's for those mobile users who view this site on an itouch or iphone. Course I'm willing to do this all but I feel it is only right to ask permission to do so. If its out of the question, feel free to delete the topic.
Title: Re: Downloading fictions on an apple device.
Post by: anathema on December 27, 2009, 02:04:50 PM
PDF's will not render correctly on a google G1.  (I've got some e-books I've been trying to put on mine and i've been unsuccessful so far)

I think there's probably a better format to use for this, but I don't know what it is.  So i support the act, but not the chosen format.  :)
Title: Re: Downloading fictions on an apple device.
Post by: FallenStar on December 27, 2009, 02:29:22 PM
I don't like PDFs nor Adobe...  I much prefer .doc format.  However, I will leave this open in case I'm misunderstanding something. 
Title: Re: Downloading fictions on an apple device.
Post by: Rend on December 27, 2009, 07:43:14 PM
doesn't have to be that format, i should change it a bit, but what im saying is a format thats
more friendly and available for mobile users.
Title: Re: Downloading fictions on an apple device.
Post by: FallenStar on December 27, 2009, 10:11:59 PM
I don't know about mobile users, but I'm too much a fan of .doc to worry about changing things around. 
Title: Re: Downloading fictions on an apple device.
Post by: Ranpalan on December 30, 2009, 01:36:38 AM
Doc is awful... Can contain malicious scripts, is not rendered the same by all editors... PDF is quite a bit better, but cannot be easily edited afterwards, as far as I know, and it cannot be viewed from a non-graphical terminal (again, as far as I know). I would suggest HTML - can be opened on any device, edited freely, and offers plenty of formatting options.
Title: Re: Downloading fictions on an apple device.
Post by: FallenStar on December 30, 2009, 03:24:42 AM
What about RTF?  That at least, would keep the formatting as opposed to basic .txt files and doesn't necessitate using Adobe, which I find full of crap...
Title: Re: Downloading fictions on an apple device.
Post by: anathema on January 03, 2010, 01:03:14 AM
well written html should be able to wrap to a devices screen right? I vote for that.
Title: Re: Downloading fictions on an apple device.
Post by: Ranpalan on January 03, 2010, 05:04:06 AM
Well-written HTML should wrap fine. For a story, you'll probably be using h*, p, b, i, u, maybe br, most of the time, which leads to a minimum amount of things that could go wrong.

As to RTF - why? HTML is far more human-readable and (iirc) supports quite a bit more than RTF.

EDIT: Wait, the Adobe comment isn't about HTML, right?
Title: Re: Downloading fictions on an apple device.
Post by: FallenStar on January 03, 2010, 06:43:22 AM
Anything that requires Adobe, in my book, is out. I really... *really* hate that program... It's worse than Java when it needs to upgrade or even load.   :S
Title: Re: Downloading fictions on an apple device.
Post by: Ranpalan on January 03, 2010, 11:40:46 AM
I've not seen anything suggested that would need adobe, so don't think that's relevant.
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