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• mogoh@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No. It is designed for print. It is used for screens (that’s the crazy part). Something like HTML or epub is designed for screens. PDF later got extended with some features, that only make sense on screen but the original design is for print and it shows. For example everything has a fixed layout size (like paper). And most of the time the order of words got lost so you can not select text in a meaningful way (something that would not matter if it is printed).

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  • zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    PDF is designed for user interfaces, actually.

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      you’re thinking of display postscript? i think that was an extension of the original language.

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      • belluck@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_PDF

        PDF was developed to share documents, including text formatting and inline images, among computer users of disparate platforms who may not have access to mutually-compatible application software.[2]

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• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Confidently incorrect.

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  actually, you’re kinda right! didn’t know this before, but pdf started as a slimmed-down version of postscript that didn’t support all print features.

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