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You just strengthened my opinion that PDF is a format of the past, considering people prefer to read the LaTeX source instead of the finished document.
by mr_mitm 5y ago
You just strengthened my opinion that PDF is a format of the past, considering people prefer to read the LaTeX source instead of the finished document.
- atoav 5y agoLet me quote an electrical engineer who thought me about norms: "Always use PDF because it comes accross more real, because it cannot be edited (!)". This is the perception non-IT-people have of PDF in comparison to e.g. .docx or similar editable formats those people know.
- PartiallyTyped 5y agoPersonally, I would like to see a pdf-like format with video/animations/gifs, possibly the ability to play with models and variables.
- m4lvin 5y agoPDFs can already contain videos and JavaScript. But given the security problems, I consider it a feature of most non-Adobe PDF viewers to not support that.
- PartiallyTyped 5y agoRight, I hadn't thought about those issues, and it's impossible to expect that venues and conferences will be capable of vetting the documents without introducing inefficiencies. Perhaps we should move to sandboxed webpages embedded within electron, where each paper is its own page?
- throwrugtime 5y agoAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!
- PartiallyTyped 5y agoI take that as an emphatic no.