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Outside of actual raster image formats, PDF is the only file type I can export to and be confident it will render correctly on the recipient's machine. SVGs are
by Wowfunhappy 4y ago
Outside of actual raster image formats, PDF is the only file type I can export to and be confident it will render correctly on the recipient's machine. SVGs are a mess, MS Office documents are a crapshoot unless everyone is using official Microsoft Office, and I probably don't need to even discuss HTML.
There are PDFs out there which will only render correctly in Adobe Acrobat, but unless I'm using some niche Adobe-only feature, I basically never encounter problems. I've also heard that PDFs are technically horrible under-the-hood, but for some reason they just work like nothing else does!
- jaywalk 4y agoAs sad as it is, the reason PDFs just work like nothing else does is probably because they're technically horrible under the hood.
- merb 4y agoThey are so horrible that you still need to have some quirks in your reader, because some important tool still generates it incorrectly , but it is still correct. Then there are loops and some software Try to parse them. The encryption types, the security, which is bonkers… why should it be possible to disallow printing or analyzing it with another software, there are attachments, forms, JavaScript… And then there is xfa (Especially the dynamic one), a format in a format which basically totally different than a pdf. But it is inside the pdf container and people expect that you understand it. Thank god that pdf 2.0 probably kills it.