Guido van Rossum: “PDF Must Die.” (2014)
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Guido van Rossum: “PDF Must Die.” (2014)
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Re: Guido van Rossum: “PDF Must Die.” (2014)
#2+1, pdf cant do this http://explorableexplanations.com/
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#3PDF was made for printing, not displaying. As someone who has been in the printing business for a long time, PDF was a god send, no more worrying about missing fonts, no more page margin differences, no more driver discrepancies.
What you see is what you get, wherever you open it, wherever you print it, that is huge.
Re: Guido van Rossum: “PDF Must Die.” (2014)
#4From an additional tweet, we can see that Guido's biggest reason for disliking PDF is the text not being responsive.
This is actually my FAVORITE thing about PDFs. They're like pages. They perfectly replicate the book medium they are often taken from. If I want to make something bigger or smaller, I can do that, and it just works with zoom. It's not trying to guess what I'm trying to do and adjust things in ways I don't want.
I'm sure it's an unpopular opinion, but I love the PDF.
Re: Guido van Rossum: “PDF Must Die.” (2014)
#5I am wondering why there is still no compiled HTML format in any age when web pages can render almost everything (at least, I can't think of any from the top of my head). With base64, images can be embedded without any external dependency and I think it should be easy to reduce what Javascript can do to address privacy concerns (like, disabling XHR).
A web page renderer is more ubiquitous than PDF. Web pages are responsive and everyone can build one with just a simple text editor. So why do we need PDF?
Re: Guido van Rossum: “PDF Must Die.” (2014)
#6I am wondering why there is still no compiled HTML format in any age when web pages can render almost everything (at least, I can't think of any from the top of my head). With base64, images can be embedded without any external dependency and I think it should be easy to reduce what Javascript can do to address privacy concerns (like, disabling XHR). A web page renderer is more ubiquitous than PDF. Web pages are resp…
MHTML?
Re: Guido van Rossum: “PDF Must Die.” (2014)
#7I am wondering why there is still no compiled HTML format in any age when web pages can render almost everything (at least, I can't think of any from the top of my head). With base64, images can be embedded without any external dependency and I think it should be easy to reduce what Javascript can do to address privacy concerns (like, disabling XHR). A web page renderer is more ubiquitous than PDF. Web pages are resp…
> "A web page renderer is more ubiquitous than PDF"
Just any browser can render a PDF as well. PDF is good because it guarantees the formatting intended by the author.
Re: Guido van Rossum: “PDF Must Die.” (2014)
#8He doesn't like PDF because it doesn't reflow to fit his screen, but that is precisely the point of PDF.
Re: Guido van Rossum: “PDF Must Die.” (2014)
#9PDF was made for printing, not displaying. As someone who has been in the printing business for a long time, PDF was a god send, no more worrying about missing fonts, no more page margin differences, no more driver discrepancies. What you see is what you get, wherever you open it, wherever you print it, that is huge .
Emphasis in "printing, not displaying".
The objection should not be "PDF must die", but "people mustn't use PDF for other purpose than printing".
Re: Guido van Rossum: “PDF Must Die.” (2014)
#10From an additional tweet, we can see that Guido's biggest reason for disliking PDF is the text not being responsive. This is actually my FAVORITE thing about PDFs. They're like pages. They perfectly replicate the book medium they are often taken from. If I want to make something bigger or smaller, I can do that, and it just works with zoom. It's not trying to guess what I'm trying to do and adjust things in ways I do…
They're delightful to read on mobile too with a reader that maintains zoom and allows continuous scrolling. I don't mind flipping the page but it's far more friction than flipping the page of an actual book since you do it about 5 to 10 times more.