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Are PDF's Obsolete?

• avoidwork 8y ago
  wow
  • mtmail 8y ago
    Can you elaborate?
• btschaegg 8y ago
  Beyond being a great example for Betteridge's Law of Headlines[1], this post essentially seems to say "PDF is bad at things PDF was never supposed to be used for". Well, go figure. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
• simonblack 8y ago
  No. In fact PDF's are taking over from the previously ubiquitous Microsoft-only formats. Not everybody can run Microsoft software. If you want to be certain that people can read your document, send it as a PDF. Which is only natural for a "PORTABLE Document Format".