• andrew_bidlaw
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    5 months ago

    FB2 is a known format for russian pirates, but it can and should be improved because it sucks ass in many things. FB3 was announced long ago but it hasn’t got any traction yet.

    EPUB is mor/e popular, so it’s probably be the go to format for most books US and EU create, but it isn’t much better.

    Other than that, even Doc\Docx is better than PDF, but I’d recomend RTF for it has less traces of M$ bullshit, and while it’s imperfect format, it’s still better.

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      5 months ago

      Whatever the format, let’s hope it doesn’t end up having the extension .map

      (minor attracted persons aka PDF file joke)

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        5 months ago

        Get ready for a sweaty techbro to explain why Least Optimized Lossless Image is the superior format.

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          5 months ago

          Only if you use the Self-Hashing Orthogonal Tracing Algorithm, naturally.

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      5 months ago

      I don’t like docx because it looks different in libreoffice compared to Windows, also you can run into problems with fonts

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        5 months ago

        DOC is a mess in different editions of Word too, especially if you do some complex formatting, but it’s the default format for text documents thanks to MS.

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      5 months ago

      Docx doc rtf and all those have a different purpose than pdf, word docs don’t even necessarily look the same on two different computers with the same version of word, and rtf doesn’t even attempt any kind of paper description, it’s literally only a rich format for text. None of these are a true “if I give this to someone to print I know what I will get” “portable document format”

      I will look at fb*, I had not heard of them. Thanks!