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Not really. The main thing PDF gets you is pixel-perfect reproduction of paper, printable documents. Authors of those “document-oriented Web” proposals use the
by Kwpolska 5y ago
Not really. The main thing PDF gets you is pixel-perfect reproduction of paper, printable documents. Authors of those “document-oriented Web” proposals use the word “document” when they really mean “painfully lightweight text files”. At the same time, those text files (whether plain, Gemini/gemtext, or Markdown), can still be freely reflowed, they can adjust to your screen size and preferred font size — you can’t do that with PDF, which has a set and constant page width/height and which specifies every character’s size and position on that page.
- robertlagrant 5y agoYes, I thought that might be the objection :) I suppose perhaps it would be interesting to have a format that takes a PDF and then lets a designer overlay the main area of content to zoom into. But perhaps that's HTML+CSS :)
- layer8 5y ago> pixel-perfect reproduction It’s not actually pixel-perfect, because the format is resolution-independent, and different PDF renderers differ slightly at the pixel level. I get what you mean, but “pixel-perfect” isn’t the right word.