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Store PDFs as html or markdown under the hood which is diffable and only generate PDF at the last second
by umvi 5y ago
Store PDFs as html or markdown under the hood which is diffable and only generate PDF at the last second
- wolverine876 5y agoNice if you are the only user. If you distribute documents to others, or receive them from others, it's less practical. Also, Markdown won't nearly represent all the formatting possibilities of a PDF. Also, I'm not sure HTML is much easier to compare than PDF. Both are markup languages, essentially. But following along your idea, it would be nice if the document itself contained separate content and presentation layers, so that we could manipulate and analyze (and compare) the content.