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Why are these documents always typeset and laid out so atrociously?
by chrisseaton 5y ago
Why are these documents always typeset and laid out so atrociously?
- paxys 5y agoPDF to HTML conversion
- breput 5y agoDoubtful - possibly DOCX to HTML, though. EDGAR (the SEC's filing system) only allows a limited subset of HTML 3.2 including inline CSS styles only[0]. The real culprit is the financial printer, Donnelley Financial, and to a lesser extent the filer. They could have made a better looking, more designed document but for a S-1 there is no motivation since the only consumers of this will be analysts. Future 8-K and 10-Q filings will likely be better designed. Still, it could have been done better. [0] https://www.sec.gov/info/edgar/specifications/edgarfm-vol2-v59.pdf https://www.sec.gov/info/edgar/specifications/edgarfm-vol2-v... (search for "5.2.2.3 Acceptable HTML Tags Within a Document Body" and the following sections).