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We already have a wildly popular website where all the main content is in the form of PDFs. It’s https://arxiv.org/ https://arxiv.org/. PDF is what you use when
by leephillips 5y ago
We already have a wildly popular website where all the main content is in the form of PDFs. It’s https://arxiv.org/ https://arxiv.org/. PDF is what you use when your document needs to have a predictable layout. This is especially important if it contains math, complex tables, or any elements where meaning is carried by positioning on the page. This can include aesthetic meaning, as in some forms of poetry that need to be laid out in a particular way.
- dredmorbius 5y agoThere are several which at least strongly resemble that remark. Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive's text archives (along with numerous other document-oriented sites, several of the samizdat variety) offer content in PDF and other document-oriented offline downloadable forats. Wikipedia has a "save to PDF" link on each article (that seems to work through the browser's capabilities, if any, not all browsers support this). The sister Mediawiki site Wikisource offers ePub downloads. For longer-form content, PDF, DJVU, and a handful of other formats (arguably ePub) are at least reasonably popular.