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7 years ago
So, I'm going to have some stories to both, including a number of older Panthera ones as well as a brand new one that will be coming up soon. Because of this I'm starting to wonder what file formats I should be using.
In the past I've mostly used text files, but that's been becoming an annoyance as I move my work to more advanced platforms, and while the older stuff I'll be posting will still be text, I don't think I want to do it for the newer stuff.
That leaves me with the question, what's the best format to use?
As I see it, there are three choices. RTF files, DOC/DOCX files and EPUB files. They can be read on pretty much every platform without much trouble, and work really well on portable devices. Of the three I think RTFs are the best as they seem to be well supported everywhere and by pretty much every word processor.
I'm not going to be use PDFs at all, they have to be (ironically) the least portal format I've even seen. I pretty much only read on my phone anymore and a PDF file is flat out unusable on it.
Still, I would love some thoughts on that before I start posting new things.
In the past I've mostly used text files, but that's been becoming an annoyance as I move my work to more advanced platforms, and while the older stuff I'll be posting will still be text, I don't think I want to do it for the newer stuff.
That leaves me with the question, what's the best format to use?
As I see it, there are three choices. RTF files, DOC/DOCX files and EPUB files. They can be read on pretty much every platform without much trouble, and work really well on portable devices. Of the three I think RTFs are the best as they seem to be well supported everywhere and by pretty much every word processor.
I'm not going to be use PDFs at all, they have to be (ironically) the least portal format I've even seen. I pretty much only read on my phone anymore and a PDF file is flat out unusable on it.
Still, I would love some thoughts on that before I start posting new things.
Windchaser
~rnixon
Of those formats, RTF is the most portable and easiest to deal with. DOC is alright, but DOCX is a nightmare if you don't have Microsoft software, and reading epub on a desktop can be kind of a pain, depending.
