01-27-2012, 02:00 AM | #121 |
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01-29-2012, 06:16 PM | #122 | |
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What I really want is something like the promised, but never delivered GURPS CD ROM. My books, in electronic format, hyper linked, searchable at my finger tips. |
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01-29-2012, 06:29 PM | #123 |
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As a follow-up to my previous post, ePub may not be the format for the books in question. There may not be an ebook format currently extant which could effectively support RPG books, especially over multiple platforms with different size view ports and aspect ratios.
Unfortunately, there is no 8.5x11 (13.9 diagonal) eReader or tablet. Currently, the "view port" for the PDFs and the books are 13.9". |
01-30-2012, 01:35 AM | #124 | ||
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I used Briss to remove the margins from Dungeon Fantasy Adventure 1: Mirror of the Fire Demon. I didn't clop them to the limit, I left a mm or two, and didn't crop the page number and chapter names found on the bottom of the pages. I ended up with a 181x259 mm pdf. That gives me a 316 mm diagonal, aprox (12.44"). However, that's not the right way to look at it, because tablets and pages don't have the same aspect ratios. My 10.1 tablet (Asus eee Pad Transformer) has a 10.1" 16:10 screen. it has a 1280x800 pixel dimensions (resolution). The screen measures 5.35"x8.56" in portrait mode. In my experience, it's the width, in portrait mode, that constrains it. That cropped PDF has 181mm (7.13") width, meaning that it displays the PDF scaled down by 25% aprox. It's quite readable, and the resolution is just barely sufficient to be able to read the smallest fonts. Tablets aren't going to get much bigger. There's a rumor for a Samsung Galaxy Tab 11.6 that would sport a 2560x1600 resolution, only slightly increasing the physical dimensions, but nearly doubling pixel density. IMHO, bigger than that would make it stop being portable. Now, the resolution is excellent, and would allow clear reading for even the smallest fonts. |
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02-04-2012, 07:19 PM | #125 |
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Apple's iBook format is epup plus. The extensions they've added are what supports the new textbook push they are making. I'm tempted to see what the new textbook authoring program could do by taking one of the smaller PDFs I've bought and cutting and pasting. Need to upgrade to the latest Mac OS first however.
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02-04-2012, 11:35 PM | #127 |
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The discussion of Apple's license, or really anyone else's, is off-topic. Please don't continue it here.
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02-06-2012, 04:05 AM | #128 | |
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PDF is a standard that is extremely well-established by now and works on pretty much any platform. ePub documents aren't quite up there yet, but still have a fairly wide spread. But tiddlywikis aren't even close.
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02-06-2012, 04:20 AM | #129 | |
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02-06-2012, 05:14 AM | #130 | |
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No, a lot of ereaders don't have browsers of any sort. That kind of thing assumes your reader has wifi or 3G. The browsers that are available on eInk readers (the sort that ePub would be ideal for) tend to refresh slowly, which might make navigating a wiki somewhat painful. Graham
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