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andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨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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Syn_Attck@lemmy.today ⁨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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- andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Get ready for a sweaty techbro to explain why Least Optimized Lossless Image is the superior format.
  
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  - JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Only if you use the Self-Hashing Orthogonal Tracing Algorithm, naturally.
    
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sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨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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- andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨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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humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Maybe for books. I’ve seen only pdf and PostScript widely used for papers in academia

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- andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Div? Can you unpack your thoughts on that, as I haven’t faced it yet?
  
  I only know DJVU or deja vu format that’s usually used for raw scans.
  
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  - humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Djvu is also for books and similar.
    
    I don’t know about div format much, but I remember that mktex was producing it as a side effect
    
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visc@lemmy.world ⁨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!

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