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A big mistake is that people still consider PDF as a "document" format. In reality, it's just a convoluted image format. Because it's an image, it doesn't have
by euske 6y ago
A big mistake is that people still consider PDF as a "document" format. In reality, it's just a convoluted image format. Because it's an image, it doesn't have any logical structure and reformatting them is pain. Worse yet, its syntax is the worst of two worlds - a mixture of text and binary. It's horrible to parse, display, and modify. As if it's like that programming language that everyone hates (and I don't want to name). But really, it's a burden of the future generation. We should eradicate it. End of rant.
- coliveira 6y agoPDF is a document display technology. It doesn't pretend to encode the semantic of the document. PDF producers are responsible for doing this.