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why they haven't come up with a format to replace PDF

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@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.

@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
@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.

@hideki Afaik there was a format that supposed to be an improved version of PDF. It just never gained popularity.

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