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PDF is tied to page layout. PDF is a way to digitally describe something that's intended to be printed to paper, on a sheet of a certain size. And as a format,
by dirkt 6y ago
PDF is tied to page layout. PDF is a way to digitally describe something that's intended to be printed to paper, on a sheet of a certain size.
And as a format, it's much more sane than, say, Word or Excel.
Even if the focus on "where do I put this glyph" means the original text isn't in there by default.
- monadic2 6y agoYea, but that's a terrible explanation for lack of basic accessibility in 2020. Literally just laziness. FWIW this is not a technical barrier; it would be absolutely trivial to associated blocks of non-flowed text with the layed out text.