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@hideki because it'll just be equally bad, if not worse
@newt they just need to add multipage support to svg et voila
@hideki nah.. you need to somehow make every printer aware of it, so that printed docs look the same everywhere.
A stripped down version of PDF is actually pretty good in this regard. Just remove stupid forms, JS, some other extensions.
A stripped down version of PDF is actually pretty good in this regard. Just remove stupid forms, JS, some other extensions.
@hideki Normies are used to it. We're still using gifs even though they're 80s tech with dithered palletes and fuckall compression, purely because normies are used to it. I could make a better format, but a pdf replacement would require actual thinking, so it's even worse
@applejack @hideki Everyone talks about how bad a collapse would be, but it would provide the opportunity to redesign so many things from the bottom up
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@hideki because PDF isn't all that horrible and does it's job as a portable document format.
Anything new would just fail at being portable, because everything has no point to support both.
Anything new would just fail at being portable, because everything has no point to support both.
@hideki what exactly is wrong with .pdf?
@hideki Afaik there was a format that supposed to be an improved version of PDF. It just never gained popularity.
