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Does anybody sees a good future of PDF?, some have claimed that PDF is the best format for data archiving or general purpose e document storage, it may be true but not sure how they support this statement.

PDFs are still the best for paper printing but now they are in decline. Other than printing they seem to have little usefulness. It awful when I try to read books on mobile devices scroll every-line and zoom. They contain just drawing instructions, totally incompatible with other formats, text selection or search not easily possible. Some items like Tables and list do not export to other format at all.

Still one area when I see their importance when we need to save web pages, or some form of rasterized visual data their inbuilt security is good but now fixed layout epubs are catching up and they show math formula can hold images fonts and styles in a single file still there is lack of fine grained control but it may nit be desirable is many cases.