@RustyCrab__dup_2222@clubcyberia.co
Post #698894
2026-03-18 18:12 UTC
Pdf is such an abominable format. Even software thats "foss" wants to pay for "plus edition" to actually edit shit. The actually free options font work right. Printing never works right. Extraction of text almost never works
why the fuck is this the gold standard of formats
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@deprecated_ii__dup_2246@poa.st 2026-03-18 18:16
@RustyCrab@clubcyberia.co my uncle worked for adobe. last thanksgiving I asked him why we haven't made a new printable document format in 30 years. he got a misty look in his eyes and said "we can't, we don't know how"
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@deprecated_ii__dup_2246@poa.st 2026-03-18 18:18
@RustyCrab@clubcyberia.co honestly it may be because PDFs are primarily the domain of the nontechnical I don't do *anything* inside PDFs. I create them all the time, but I do all the layout and styling and everything with other tools. the PDF is just the final product