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PDF is a high-quality vector format that displays the same on every device, can be produced by many different applications but use the same viewer, and has a pu
by mkl 7y ago
PDF is a high-quality vector format that displays the same on every device, can be produced by many different applications but use the same viewer, and has a public specification that's an ISO standard. There's very little competition. Compressed PostScript is clunky, slow, and still big, XPS was too late, DJVU is primarily for scans. Things like Word or HTML display differently on different devices, Word and many other formats are or were proprietary.
- cronopios 7y agoWhat about [DVI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_independent_file_format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_independent_file_format)?
- mkl 7y agoOnly really used for TeX-related things. Not general purpose as it can't embed fonts, and graphics is usually by embedding PostScript I think.