03-26-2012, 03:16 PM | #81 | ||
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Re: Is a 5th Edition coming soon?
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Also what happens to the layout of the books when you do this? If you get rid of the columns what happens to the page references? What happens to the box text? Quote:
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03-26-2012, 03:48 PM | #83 |
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Re: Is a 5th Edition coming soon?
My top of the head prediction: Not before 2025... I'm not sure we'd have gotten 4th yet if not for the D20 over reaction by the game ndustry, and most of that was "We have to sell hardback books!"
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03-26-2012, 04:42 PM | #84 |
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Re: Is a 5th Edition coming soon?
Dad, is that you?
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03-26-2012, 05:18 PM | #85 |
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Re: Is a 5th Edition coming soon?
You do realize this thread was created five years ago, right?
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03-26-2012, 05:21 PM | #86 |
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Re: Is a 5th Edition coming soon?
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, PDF is absolutely the worst possible format... except for all the others. eBooks have to serve many masters, and the only format that does so with any amount of usability and grace is PDF. There are better formats for eReaders. There are better formats for reading on computer screens. There are even better formats for printing. But there is no better format for doing all three in one, and for a small company they cannot afford to republish their ebooks into multiple formats, so you choose the lesser of all the evils, which is PDF.
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03-26-2012, 05:23 PM | #87 | |
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And, even five years later, there is still no need for a 5th edition any time soon.
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03-26-2012, 06:38 PM | #88 |
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Re: Is a 5th Edition coming soon?
Of course this really isn't about that anymore, but rather about pdf versus some other format.
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03-26-2012, 11:40 PM | #89 | |
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I can read GURPS PDFs on my HTC Hero, a phone several years old. I can also read them on my computer or print them out and am pretty content that no other format will work as well on all 3 mediums. |
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03-27-2012, 07:29 AM | #90 | |
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Re: Is a 5th Edition coming soon?
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What is this Need some people have for the newest thing when the older thing it's intended to replace still works?
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