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Originally Posted by Sonist
Hm, see if you can find the word "printing" in the main wikipedia definition:
"Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange. PDF is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system.
Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout 2D document (and, with Acrobat 3D, embedded 3D documents) that includes the text, fonts, images, and 2D vector graphics which compose the documents.
Formerly a proprietary format, PDF was officially released as an open standard on July 1, 2008, and published by the International Organization for Standardization as ISO/IEC 32000-1:2008."
Your argument is kind of like claiming, that a paper book sucks, because you' miss the ability to reflow and print the manuscript on 3x3" paper on your office printer.
And, yes, you CAN print plain text files too, but it doesn't make it a "format for printing.". |
Not to mention that the entire graphics display layer of OS X is based on Display PDF (a successor to the Display PostScript that NeXT systems used).