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> HTML allows for too much variation between browsers and looks like garbage when printed. Yeah, nowadays. But it's pretty simple to print just text pretty nic

> HTML allows for too much variation between browsers and looks like garbage when printed. Yeah, nowadays. But it's pretty simple to print just text pretty nicely from a website.

Barrin92 3y ago
>But it's pretty simple it really isn't. Depending on what you display your text with the results may look very different depending on the platform. 'Portable' is in the name for a reason, the big advantage of pdfs is that they'll look the same everywhere.
- tiffanyg 3y ago
  ... they'll look the same everywhere. Hahahahhahhahahhahhahahahha ahhahahhaha ... ajajjjajjajaja... Look, I'm laughing so hard, I suddenly turned Spanish*. Lol. That wasn't true in the late 80s and 90s, and it isn't true today. The reasons are different, and PDF does allow a lot of control, PLUS, PDFs undoubtedly DO look "the same everywhere" to the degree of "fidelity" you're implicitly assuming (and, to be fair, the degree that is most important in this kind of casual discussion), but, my experiences with PDF and "same everywhere" (including across types of media) lead to uproarious laughter on the outside (and crying and gnashing of the teeth on the inside *<:o) ). * j is so close to h in qwerty, mashing the keys = suddenly Spanish (where jajaja is often used / sensible with "soft j")
- DANmode 3y ago
  But will they be able to execute the same malicious code everywhere?! (No, they will not.)
lockhouse 3y ago
> But it's pretty simple to print just text pretty nicely from a website. That hasn't been my experience at all. I've had to resort to taking screenshots or copying and pasting text from websites into Word to print something actually readable.
adrian_b 3y ago
I do not know what browser you are using, but both Chrome and Firefox are extremely bad at printing. Using the "reader mode" to print "just text" works on some sites, but on other sites it loses essential information from the original page or formats the text in such an inappropriate way that it becomes very hard to read. The "reader mode" is intended to be read loudly and not as an aid for printing. What is needed is a print command that renders the page exactly like on the display, instead of rendering it for printing in such a way that much of the text becomes obscured by various junk.

> HTML allows for too much variation between browsers and looks like garbage when printed. Yeah, nowadays. But it's pretty simple to print just text pretty nicely from a website.

Barrin92 3y ago

>But it's pretty simple it really isn't. Depending on what you display your text with the results may look very different depending on the platform. 'Portable' is in the name for a reason, the big advantage of pdfs is that they'll look the same everywhere.

tiffanyg 3y ago
... they'll look the same everywhere. Hahahahhahhahahhahhahahahha ahhahahhaha ... ajajjjajjajaja... Look, I'm laughing so hard, I suddenly turned Spanish*. Lol. That wasn't true in the late 80s and 90s, and it isn't true today. The reasons are different, and PDF does allow a lot of control, PLUS, PDFs undoubtedly DO look "the same everywhere" to the degree of "fidelity" you're implicitly assuming (and, to be fair, the degree that is most important in this kind of casual discussion), but, my experiences with PDF and "same everywhere" (including across types of media) lead to uproarious laughter on the outside (and crying and gnashing of the teeth on the inside *<:o) ). * j is so close to h in qwerty, mashing the keys = suddenly Spanish (where jajaja is often used / sensible with "soft j")
DANmode 3y ago
But will they be able to execute the same malicious code everywhere?! (No, they will not.)

lockhouse 3y ago

> But it's pretty simple to print just text pretty nicely from a website. That hasn't been my experience at all. I've had to resort to taking screenshots or copying and pasting text from websites into Word to print something actually readable.

adrian_b 3y ago

I do not know what browser you are using, but both Chrome and Firefox are extremely bad at printing. Using the "reader mode" to print "just text" works on some sites, but on other sites it loses essential information from the original page or formats the text in such an inappropriate way that it becomes very hard to read. The "reader mode" is intended to be read loudly and not as an aid for printing. What is needed is a print command that renders the page exactly like on the display, instead of rendering it for printing in such a way that much of the text becomes obscured by various junk.