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I just wish that PDFs were more developer friendly, from what I've seen they're kind of a painful format (not that the modern web page is any easier to read the
by foota 10y ago
I just wish that PDFs were more developer friendly, from what I've seen they're kind of a painful format (not that the modern web page is any easier to read the source of but still)
- Freak_NL 10y agoPDF is a lot easier to handle if you consider it binary output, just like PNG or JPEG. For a lot of developers it makes more sense to use one of the PDF emitting tool chains or libraries available instead of working with the PDF file format directly — the most well-known option being LaTeX of course.
- foota 10y agoI have no issues with generating PDFs, I think it's great for that. It's the fact that it's a format that's almost impossible, or takes an extreme amount of effort, to retrieve information from once it's been rendered that I don't like about it. It's more akin to an image format than a text format.