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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

PDF is a pointless file format that should not exist. Come at me.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

It's good for sending documents you don't want to be tampered with because most people don't know how to edit a PDF.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

This. I care about graphic design and aesthetics. So when I send a document to a group for review, I’m not taking the risk of giving them something they could mess with.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

You can lock other file formats too though

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Pdf will always look the same though. A doc/docx file can look wildly different depending on the editor you are using.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

10000 times better than the previously mainstream way which was people sending you office docs expecting you could open that shit.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Yes, but not just that. Opening a document in Word is for the writer.

A pet peeve of mine is when I'm sent a user guide as a Word document complete with squiggly lines under the words it doesn't know.

Even worse is when a colleague sends a document like that to a customer.

PDF is a published file format, I find it hard to imagine a world where you could convince me downloading the user manual for my motherboard or downloading Lego assembly instructions should come as a word document.

I bet this person thinks all raster images should be bitmaps. Sorry maybe that was too harsh.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Pointless?? Really? We should have just stuck with postscript? I’m pretty happy with pdf for almost anything as there’s a good chance it’ll render how whoever sent it to me was seeing it. What would you suggest/do different?

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