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Are PDF's Obsolete?

by edburdo on 5/30/18, 11:45 AM with 4 comments

• by simonblack on 5/30/18, 1:10 PM

  No.

  In fact PDF's are taking over from the previously ubiquitous Microsoft-only formats. Not everybody can run Microsoft software. If you want to be certain that people can read your document, send it as a PDF.

  Which is only natural for a "PORTABLE Document Format".

• by btschaegg on 5/30/18, 1:07 PM

  Beyond being a great example for Betteridge's Law of Headlines[1], this post essentially seems to say "PDF is bad at things PDF was never supposed to be used for". Well, go figure.

  [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...

• by avoidwork on 5/30/18, 12:09 PM

  wow