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What happened to HTML? Nobody could read nor discuss about PDF here without it.
by lixtra 7y ago
What happened to HTML? Nobody could read nor discuss about PDF here without it.
- SigmundA 7y agoLet me know when browser support the full CSS print spec...no Prince doesn't count.
- lixtra 7y agoTell me when PDF can reasonably reflow in all environments/devices.
- SigmundA 7y agoPDF are not meant for reflow, layout has already been done by the program that made them, pagination is complete. Again I would be happy with HTML if the major browsers actually implemented full CSS print spec that exists to cover what PDF does with print layout.
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- creatornator 7y agoThe whole point of a pdf is to display _exactly_ the same across all devices. For something like a scientific research paper, you want all figures, etc., to remain in the same place to avoid formatting oddities.
- lixtra 7y agoThat’s an important feature, just like reflow. But does the former make PDF World’s most important file format?
- speedplane 7y ago>> The whole point of a pdf is to display _exactly_ the same across all devices. > That’s an important feature, just like reflow. But does the former make PDF World’s most important file format? It's not just that PDFs are displayed the same across devices, it's that it's displayed the same over time. I can open a PDF generated in 1995 and it will look identical today as it did then. The same can't be said about HTML or Word documents generated in 1995.
- harshreality 7y agoThe minor html variant standardized as epub is alive and well, and ubiquitous for ebooks — whereever exact page layout (like scientific textbooks) and page # references don't matter. With very narrow exceptions, that are even narrower than PDF publishers think, epub is and should be preferred even for technical or academic writings. (Kindle's kf8 format is just a repackaged variant of epub.)