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Originally Posted by tompe
Well, they have designed the format so I think it is their fault. When I read about it a couple of months ago I got the impression that the format is not so easy to parse and handle. You could have designed it differently in a way that stimulated third parties to write good applications for it but that was not in Adobes interest when they designed the format.
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It isn't very easy but it is well understood. PDF is really a packaging of the PostScript language file format which has been around for ages. For example a table in PDF is built using raw lines that are displayed on a page with the text formatted individually to the xy coordinates on the page. There isn't any actual construct for the table itself.
Dale