Lorraine Lee on Nostr: Tom Morris Now that HTML has paged media properties, and data: url's for the ...
Tom Morris (npub187c…3rzp) Now that HTML has paged media properties, and data: url's for the pictures, If used in this way (which unfortunately is rarely) think it can be considered a pretty "printer-ready" and "download friendly" format. PDF perhaps has more consistency in how a given document will render, but the cost of that is the thing that brought us here, namely the standard itself being the plaything of one company. To me, "it's on p. 47" can be a bit of a cognitive load in a PDF where the page numbering starts on the 17th sheet or something because table of contents and other stuff comes before the paginated part of the document.
The main thing I hate about PDF is that it is the roach motel of file formats. Everything can be converted to PDF, and PDF can't be converted to anything. It's literally unparsable. Machine readability for me but not for thee; the heart and soul of information asymmetry. I hate it whenever proprietary formats become de-facto standards, but I have a special abhorrence for "portable" "document" "format".
The main thing I hate about PDF is that it is the roach motel of file formats. Everything can be converted to PDF, and PDF can't be converted to anything. It's literally unparsable. Machine readability for me but not for thee; the heart and soul of information asymmetry. I hate it whenever proprietary formats become de-facto standards, but I have a special abhorrence for "portable" "document" "format".