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Great writeup. The more I learn about GhostScript / PostsScript / PDF‘s in general, the more I‘m amazed that such a complicated system can produce simple docume
by selfmodruntime 3y ago
Great writeup. The more I learn about GhostScript / PostsScript / PDF‘s in general, the more I‘m amazed that such a complicated system can produce simple documents that are relied upon by billions of people.
I feel when like compared to a lot of other consumer facing software, PDF‘s are an incredible achievement. 99% of the time, a PDF will look and work the exact same to every user regardless of their environment. They can be editable at the exact needed places and when I print them, I can be sure the result will look exactly as I expect.
The only gripe I have with them is that while I can easily specify input fields, easily extracting that data isn‘t always as reliable.
- eviks 3y agoYour only gripe is an indication that the document is anything but simple
- selfmodruntime 3y agoAs I said, it‘s simple to use for consumers.
- eviks 3y agoWow, so consumers don't copy&paste?
- selfmodruntime 3y agoThey can. I was talking about automation.
- eviks 3y agoThey can't, line continuation is broken in pdf, so the most basic consumer operation like copy&paste a few paragraphs of text is broken since pdf is anything but a simple format No advanced stuff like automaton required