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What would be really awesome is a PDF competitor. Put fonts, images, media in tables. Open spec so everyone can use. Perhaps an ability to lock/sign?

• fomine3 6y ago
  OpenXPS :)
• zelly 6y ago
  PDF is an open spec--even though it is so complicated that there's only one complete implementation which costs money.
  • scrollaway 6y ago
    Meet PDF/A, a safe subset of pdf which enforces certain features and is suitable for archival: https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000318.shtml https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd0003... PDF/A is in use in several government institutions already, and there are validators out there etc.
• ReactiveJelly 6y ago
  You could do it with packed HTML, and run a little localhost web server to plug it into a browser. HTML is a mess, but at least it's popular.
  • pessimizer 6y ago
    PDF is already a popular mess, and open. If you were going to reimplement on top of sqlite, the value would be from implementing it sanely.
    • BlueTemplar 6y ago
      PDF, unlike HTML, is inappropriate for most digital documents.
  • BlueTemplar 6y ago
    What happened to single-file HTLM formats ? There's EPUB, but it has some shortcomings, like the lack of mp4/webm support...
    • 2038AD 6y ago
      > There's EPUB, but it has some shortcomings, like the lack of mp4/webm support... As a PDF replacement, that seems like a good feature to exclude
      • BlueTemplar 6y ago
        Why ? Also, I'm not looking for a PDF replacement so much as an actual digital portable document format.
  • im3w1l 6y ago
    Html is a very complex "living standard" which arguably makes it unsuited for anything but web content.