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Better in what way? Sure, editing a PDF sucks, but why are you even doing that? The purpose of a pdf is to preserve formatting precisely. If you don’t need that
by Finnucane 3y ago
Better in what way? Sure, editing a PDF sucks, but why are you even doing that? The purpose of a pdf is to preserve formatting precisely. If you don’t need that, you could use something else. You could output everything as an epub file, using html.
- bediger4000 3y agoPDFs don't do an excellent job of preserving formatting either. Over the years I've looked at lots of PDF formatted files that are quite different on screen and on paper.
- Finnucane 3y agoPretty much the whole book publishing industry runs on pdfs, and if they weren’t reliable, that would change.
- bediger4000 3y agoI'm also told that the publishing industry depends almost solely on "Word". If this dependence on "Word" is true, then I bet that if a PDF malfunctions, they just shrug their shoulders and tell themselves "that's just the way it is" ad move on. Because that's what you have to do when "Word" does something goofy, and "Word" is the Standard Word Processor.