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I use PDFs for engineering drawings of mechanical parts. It's been done for a long time and is a good fit. There's a specific sheet format and scale, and is mea

• jfk13 6y ago
  ...although you need to beware of printouts getting silently scaled. It's really common, when someone asks to print (e.g.) an A4-sized PDF to A4 paper, for the printer driver to rescale it so that the entire document (including margins) fits within the (slightly smaller) printable area of the device. "Shrink to fit [within printable area]" seems to be a common default setting. (If you're using PDFs for precisely-scaled engineering drawings, I expect you're well aware of this and have a workflow that avoids scaling, but I see people trip over it all too often.)
• dragonwriter 6y ago
  > I use PDFs for engineering drawings of mechanical parts. It's been done for a long time and is a good fit. Good for you, but that doesn't change that most of the uses of PDF on the web aren't for applications like that.