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21 sats \ 11 replies \ @Scoresby 20 Nov \ on: Stacker Saloon
Why is anyone in the world at all ever in any way publishing something as a pdf?
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0 sats \ 9 replies \ @SimpleStacker 20 Nov
i sometimes wonder the same thing, but then i remember that before the PDF people would send each other microsoft word documents
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30 sats \ 8 replies \ @Scoresby 20 Nov
Oh lord.
I just...html is so good. Or markdown. Just make something that changes to fit my screen please!
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102 sats \ 5 replies \ @ek 20 Nov
Your PDF reader can’t make the document fit your screen?
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Scoresby 20 Nov
Sure it fits the screen, but in the most laughable way ever: pdf readers just shrink the whole document page until it fits.
If everyone is reading electronically, why are we even bothering with a static page size?
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102 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 20 Nov
pdf readers just shrink the whole document page until it fits
The built-in PDF reader in my browser (Brave) has two options: fit whole document, or fit width to screen:
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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @Scoresby 20 Nov
but in neither case does it change the number of words per line. This is my problem.
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102 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 20 Nov
It's especially hard to read pdf on mobile
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 20 Nov
Ahh, ok
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102 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 20 Nov
yeh, it makes sense that everything should be web-native. markdown has my support as the default document format. but it's probably not powerful enough for the corporate-types who like to have fancy looking reports
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 20 Nov
I will convert it all to web native formats.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 20 Nov
PDF stands for Portable Document Format. It’s supposed to be the USB for documents.
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