• JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Oh boy, I sure am excited to websites hosting PDFs! I love when the tool that everyone uses for hosting and viewing HTML get to be blessed with the perfect format that is PDF!

    I LOVE PDFS! I love two column PDFs! I love reading like this!

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    Instead of like this

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    It’s amazing and such a good user experience!

    I love that PDFs are so difficult to transform into HTML, too. I would never want the besmirch the publishers oerfect one approved layout by resizing the window!

    • brianary@startrek.website
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      1 year ago

      I’ve always called Word documents and PDFs “dead-end formats” (DEF). Once you export your data to them, there’s no reliable way to retrieve your data from them for further transformation like you can for YAML, JSON, XML, HTML, Markdown, &c.