Pagination is better that scrolling on mobile devices. I often prefer it on a desktop screen as well.
I read PDFs all the time on my iPad Pro. They fit the form factor perfectly.
What is the PDF format good for? Nothing (2006)
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Re: What is the PDF format good for? Nothing (2006)
#32PDF is mostly a subset of Postscript. It improves on Postscript in terms of speed and security. In contrast to Postscript, it is not a Turing-complete programming language. What's left is a bunch of commands placing graphics objects on pages. That means PDF viewers cannot be DoSed in an obvious way by placing infinite loops in the document. It also means that any page in a document can be directly rendered, without r…
PDF allows Javascript, making aspects of it Turing-complete.
Re: What is the PDF format good for? Nothing (2006)
#33This post - and every technical post on the internet - needs a date stamp. Please never blog or post anything without putting a date on it.
Also research papers please.