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PDF is just about the worst choice here. It represents a piece of paper conceptually and not the actual content. PDF is a presentation format, not a content fo
by tatersolid 9y ago
PDF is just about the worst choice here. It represents a piece of paper conceptually and not the actual content.
PDF is a presentation format, not a content format.
- rayiner 9y agoAs explained above, the separation of content and presentation is conceptually desirable, but not at the expense of being able to capture all the content you need to capture. What other format lets you capture everything from a prisoner’s pro se habeas petition (scrawled with pencil in a prison library) to legal briefs from Fortune 500 corporations? If I were designing a court document system from scratch, I’d still use PDF, and not for lack of imagination. It’s incredibly powerful technology. I actually ran into this while looking for comprehensive note taking solutions for my legal practice. A lot of modern web-based tools don’t embrace PDF, and they’re toys as a result. I can’t scrawl notes on a deposition transcript? I have to handle key evidentiary documents as second-class attachments? Useless. I settled on an iPad Pro (great PDF markup support) and emailing myself files to my Exchange account.