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I can think of several ways I can print a word file to pdf. In the rare occasions I might need a pdf to share. But what I mean is pdf sucks and shouldn’t be allowed on the internet
It's a fine format for what it's intended for, exact preservation of content, format, and layout. Once you start looking at a the immutable archivist/distribution format and start thinking to yourself "I'd rather like to edit that" then you've messed up.
You're not lying. You are printing it as a PDF. Your electronic buddy doesn't see a difference.
Postscript (not the P in PDF, even though I think it should have been) is how Portable Document Format is made.
PostScript’s original purpose was for formatting documents to print with laser printers, but to also interpret font hinting and display features for lower resolution printing. But it required printers to process them before rasterization.
It was so good at this that it made sense to also use it for the much lower resolution of computer screens once computers were powerful enough to do the rasterization themselves. Hence the PDF replacing most .PS (PostScript) files, unless you were a graphic design student in the late 90s.
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Beyond that, also, what's so hard about clicking on "File > Export As... > PDF" which is literally in the file menu on LibreOffice at the very least. I don't know about MS Office, but I would assume it's the same.
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"Print to file" to create a PDF, but it's Microsoft's stupid alternative format. Can't even remember its name, nobody used it.
Fucking xps format. Like almost everything Microslop had touched, it can burn in software hell
The best part is Word for example now by default just outputs a PDF file if you tell it to export an XPS file, which gets extra funny if you have a licensed version of Acrobat installed because Acrobat installs an extension to also export as a PDF except it works worse!
Agreed! I remember back in the day when they first created the docx format. Such bloated garbage. I think an empty file was like 100-200 KB. And PowerPoint files are unreasonably huge too
I remember seeing an article about how the xlsx format description was several hundred pages in length.
OOXML is over 600 pages, yes. With lots of contradictions and filler words btw. And a "standard" (with scandals abound) that has most of the format as proprietary extensions. And MS Office/365 doesn't even keep to it, so other office suites never have as good support of the format as MS itself.
Use ODF to save your documents. MS started their "standard" because of it anyway, fearing losses in their customer base (that bound them to Windows).
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Until you realize that a PDF is literally just a format based around a standard set of instructions used to print documents.
It stands for Print Da File.
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Laughing in LaTeX
Similarly, Android has distinct "share" and "open with" menus but I mostly use the former as the latter.
exports are subject to tariffs, only religious people can be saved. So printing is the secular, free trade choice.
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I think it's worse that it's quicker to take a screenshot of an image online than going through the trouble of saving it.
Boomers made me hate PDF filea
the world is run by PDF files
And the people who can't open them
people will call you dumbass because you don't use AI but they can't open a pdf file
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Having worked at a bank, everything is PDF files. All the billions of dollars in loans, assets, and accounts etc. it's all PDF files of agreements and terms. The entire finance industry would be heavily destabilized if the industry somehow rug pulled them on PDFs
Adobe made me hate pdf files.
Most boomers I known would happily send you a docx to sign digitally. So I have to open word to save their crap to PDF to open it in Acrobat to sign it and send it back. They probably wouldnt even notice if I changed the terms in the meantime.
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