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Right, but that's what I'm getting at: PDF is just a terrible format all round. People do things with it that have nothing to do with document preservation. We
by ethin 11mo ago
Right, but that's what I'm getting at: PDF is just a terrible format all round. People do things with it that have nothing to do with document preservation. We have PDF forms, we have PDFs able to execute arbitrary JS (which can modify the rendering of the document, completely defeating the entire reason for the format existing)... Like IMO the format just has no reason to exist/be used anymore given how bloated and over-complicated it is.
- ericpauley 11mo agoThat's why we have PDF/A: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A
- DHRicoF 11mo agoHeck. I need any replacment to be at least equally capable of PDFs. The minimum I expect is for it to be able to run Linux in them. https://github.com/ading2210/linuxpdf https://github.com/ading2210/linuxpdf /s