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It's pretty much essential to the publishing industry. Until we actually stop printing books, we'll be using pdfs.
by Finnucane 6y ago
It's pretty much essential to the publishing industry. Until we actually stop printing books, we'll be using pdfs.
- axiolite 6y agoThere's nothing special about PDF. Only reason PDF is useful is because it's easy to convert to/from Postscript and Adobe was pushing out a free viewer for PDFs but not Postscript files. That, and the difference in fees they chose to charge on the formats.
- Finnucane 6y agoThat may be true, but it is so deeply embedded into publishing workflows now it would be hard to dislodge.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoSome in the publishing industry have actually moved to HTML - O'Reilly comes to mind.
- Finnucane 6y agoFor online and authoring, sure. If they print the books, it gets converted to a pdf.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoWhich is what pdfs should be (mostly) restricted to.