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Slightly dissapointed
Jul. 31st, 2009 08:55 pmToday someone recommended two Tardis Big Bang fics...(didn't know they were big bangs until I saw where the links went) and I noticed they have single file versions of the stories up. Only problem is that they are in PDF and sized for 8x11 pages. I'm puzzled as to why PDF ends up as the default for so many people? What's wrong with RTF, Doc, or HTML? Neither of those formats is any harder to share than PDF. I mean to create the PDF you have to start off with a doc file.
I guess for me I always try to share the easiest to convert from format where as other people seem to be picking the hardest to convert from instead. (the one most likely to screw up the author's story if you convert it to another format, crash your computer, and display's badly on the few portable reading devices that "support" pdf.)
PDF is a great final format for printing. It's never been a great format for reading on the computer or converting from. There are other file formats out there that are more flexible.
So, in the meantime, I think the only tardis big bangs I'll be reading anytime soon is from authors that elected to share their stories as a single file. With Torchwood and Doctor Who fandom I'm better off sticking to their massive archive of fics at A Teaspoon and An Open Mind.
I guess for me I always try to share the easiest to convert from format where as other people seem to be picking the hardest to convert from instead. (the one most likely to screw up the author's story if you convert it to another format, crash your computer, and display's badly on the few portable reading devices that "support" pdf.)
PDF is a great final format for printing. It's never been a great format for reading on the computer or converting from. There are other file formats out there that are more flexible.
So, in the meantime, I think the only tardis big bangs I'll be reading anytime soon is from authors that elected to share their stories as a single file. With Torchwood and Doctor Who fandom I'm better off sticking to their massive archive of fics at A Teaspoon and An Open Mind.