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I would argue essentially print is dead or should die. I read things one my phone, my tablet, and various monitor sizes with various sized windows. I think, tho
by greggman3 6y ago
I would argue essentially print is dead or should die. I read things one my phone, my tablet, and various monitor sizes with various sized windows. I think, though could be wrong, that's true for most people on the planet in 2020. Even poor people on the other side of the world probably read stuff on feature phones if nothing else.
The world has also gotten more international and a PDF designed for US Letter Size doesn't fit A4 paper used in many other countries.
PDFs is left over from the early 90s when print was still the main way we communicated. We didn't yet email each other, at least not the masses. We didn't have lots of different devices. Our screens were low-res so it was much easier to read paper than screens (some people might still find that true). Heck, when PDF came out in 93 most PCs still ran DOS.
Now-a-days though does nothing bet get in the way. Sure, some rare PDFs can be reflowed but basically PDF wasn't designed for that and it's certainly not used that way. We need a format that re-flows for all the various devices we might be reading something on. For the most part HTML seems to fit that bill. Maybe a version with better image/diagram embedding would be good but we arguably do not need something brand new from scratch.
TL:DR; the world changed. PDF is designed for the the world from 30yrs ago. May it rest in peace.