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...you think PDF files can't be edited? ๐ค
Internally, PDF is such a shit format that it is more likely to cause your computer to go thermonuclear and destroy your entire neighborhood than it is to survive even the most minor edit. And that's even if you choose to pay Adobe for their craptastic editor.
It's not intended to be an editable format. Any hacky solution that allows editing it is always going to be shit.
And spreadsheets aren't supposed to be anything more than a convenient way to calculate things, but we know how that went.
I hear the message.
Next time I refrain from making tongue-in-cheek comments or try different emojis ๐ซก
There was no message, I just recently had to do a deep dive into our PDF code to fix something that is ridiculous and took way too long to work around (it wasn't a bug as much as it was PDF nonsense), so I am severely butthurt about PDF right now and venting about it whenever I get the chance.
I'm sorry if my light-footed comment has caused distress by reminding you of your deep dive into your PDF code ๐
PDF can be an image format. If they want to draw on top of that, they can do that with any format.
I don't care if it's edited, it's the presentation.