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PDF is indeed a very bloated format, but documents are inherently complex. I don't think you can create anything that deserves the name "tiny" but can still han
by adrianN 5y ago
PDF is indeed a very bloated format, but documents are inherently complex. I don't think you can create anything that deserves the name "tiny" but can still handle anything you might want to send to a printer (and that's a much smaller use case than "anything you want to display on a screen").
- tinus_hn 5y agoPDF is bloated because it went beyond documents into 3D models and interactivity. A compressed, paginated and indexed postscript file is not complex.
- dvdkhlng 5y agoWhat about: DjVu [1]? It's not very well known, but it's so elegant, and also efficient, especially for scanned files. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DjVu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DjVu