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The digits of pi contain every pdf that ever could and ever will exist.
"Find the earliest valid pdf in consecutive digits of pi"
PDF support in Firefox is one of the most important additions in recent years. My gripe with Mozilla was they're pursing all these side projects when they really should be targeting feature parity with Chrome. That's the only way people will ever switch.
Like PDF support?
I looked into coding PDFs once. Then I closed my MacBook (Pro) and went for a long walk into the ocean. I think I almost got to America, but then I turned and swam back again. Turnd out I had just fallen asleep and had a nightmare. I was actually just working with regular text files, and everything was fine.
What's your favorite PDF feature that causes a brain meltdown? I've read a few comments on HN how PDF is, well, not developer-friendly. If people are interested in providing some more examples here, I'd be curious to know!
Having said that (and worked on a commercial PDF library), despite all the cruft that came with age, it's a well built format that survived the test of time with good reasons.
Truly revolutionary tech
And here I was thinking we were living in the future when I could print out a pdf, fill out the fields with a pencil, take a picture of it, then email it to myself, change the file type back to pdf, and send it to whomever requested it...
I looked into coding PDFs once. Then I closed my MacBook (Pro) and went for a long walk into the ocean. I think I almost got to America, but then I turned and swam back again. Turnd out I had just fallen asleep and had a nightmare. I was actually just working with regular text files, and everything was fine.
...a wondeful novel along these lines. They only get shot and kidnapped though. Nothing so bad as PDFs.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pdf-viewer/oemmndc...
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At least it's probably better than MS-Word's internal format ... (?)
I'm not saying it's beautiful, but isn't Ms-Word's internal format basically a series of XML files that are zipped up? The old .Doc and .xls files were a bad format, but my understanding is that since Office 2007 the format is generally much better.