• dustyData@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Unironically, the most incompetent and technically annoying file format to work with.

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      3 hours ago

      Annoying to edit, yeah, but it’s a pretty good format for making sure no information on the page moves around.

      My hypothesis is that Adobe Acrobat is so bad that people have started hating pdf.

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        29 minutes ago

        As someone who has had to work with PDFs from a technical perspective, PDF is hot mess of a file format. The fact it works at all is as much a testament to mankind’s arrogance and stubborness as the city of Phoenix existing.

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          16 minutes ago

          I work with pdfs as a designer and they’ve been pretty trustworthy, but I am now burdened with the knowledge that they are a mess behind the scenes.