History of the PDF
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History of the PDF
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#2"read this PDF online" goes to a 404. Perhaps un-ironically? If you have the PDF you can read it!
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#3PDF is the worst document format, apart from all the other formats. When developing software to read or process PDFs the PDF spec can always deliver a jump scare like no other spec. But to give it credit it broke Microsoft's stranglehold on documents, not completely, but back in the mid 2000s organizations no longer required you to submit things as word documents anymore.
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#4Here’s a link that works: https://www.sensible.so/blog/history-of-the-pdf
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#5This doesn't make the best coffee table book.
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#6PDF is the worst document format, apart from all the other formats. When developing software to read or process PDFs the PDF spec can always deliver a jump scare like no other spec. But to give it credit it broke Microsoft's stranglehold on documents, not completely, but back in the mid 2000s organizations no longer required you to submit things as word documents anymore.
Adobe file formats never had the reputation of being easy to work with. I spent some time with the CFF font format, and I can say it was not a pleasure.
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#7>In 2020, Nielsen made the case again, writing, “After 20 years of watching users perform similar tasks on a variety of sites that use either PDFs or regular web pages, one thing remains certain: PDFs degrade the user experience.”
Good luck saving a HTML version of any modern web page and being able to read it in twenty or thirty years time. HTML just wasn't designed for that.
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#8I'm so impressed by the design of this PDF file. It's amazing that they put in so much effort to design what comes down to just an informational article.
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#9I thought being emancipated from word docs was freedom until I realized the suffering brought on by a left field version of wkhtmltopdf no one uses but someone built and distributed via pamac AUR. In software, Hybridization is Postmodernism.
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#10For some reason, this page embeds the PDF as an iframe. The actual PDF is at https://19971168.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/199711...