PDFs SUCK

Why do we have to keep using PDFs, which are often annoying to deal with?

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[Zippomon]

As a graphic designer, a PDF is basically a final document — to share or print. Not something you'd edit (unless we're taking about forms). Yeah, editing them is a pain in the ass.

[MCFalkenstein]

IMHO PDFs are fine as an end product, but you don't edit PDFs. You edit LaTeX or some other format that goes to PDF.

[rudranroy]

Pdfs are like jpegs for photos. Contains all the information needed to print and share, but not intended for editing.

[prakharchaurasiya]

PDFs are basically printed papers for me,
but without the dead trees.

[bendirval]

PDFs are great for what they were designed for: representing ink on a page with some associated functionality. They were never designed to be easily edited and that's kind of a feature, not a bug.

[norbert]

Linus: *casualy speaks english*
Youtube for some reason: netherland captions

[timelessdomain]

Everyone might hate Clippy giving us his opinions, but I would still like an add-on for him to come back!

[Ice_]

I salute to those student who upload the pdf versions of the textbooks i had to use in the semester

[TheVanuPhantom]

Print to PDF saved my employer's ass when their printers stopped working one evening.

[JohnCroucherAU]

Every user ever: "Here are the 200 pages of spreadsheet data to use in your code. I have attached a PDF"
Me: *sighs*

[boucaa]

PDFs are not meant to be edited, they are the final product. Change my mind.

[dani.munoz.a]

Adobe: makes products free
BREAKING NEWS: PIRACY RATES HAVE DROPPED TO 0%

[Pallekatt]

The difficulty in editing it, is actually it's strength. We use plenty of software that edits in word, but published in PDF, for just that fact alone. As well as the ability to digitally sign it with a approval or in form of signed agreement. I usually say, don't edit pdf, edit the original.

[esisimp]

"They don't look all that different from regular word document". Lol. you need to take a look at Math or Physics paper :p

[JUICEbaseball]

As a 30+ year Graphic Artist, I can tell you that .PDFs changed everything when they added the ability to color separate into the mix. Before that, the task of getting film separations, a matchprint from a service bureau was a laborious task. It involved copying the file in native format along with all attachments (Fonts, images, graphics, etc.) onto a SyQuest or Bernoulli drive, driving over to the service bureau, Having them open the file with attachments and generating film output and creating a matchprint, than taking those to either a printer or packing them up and shipping them FedEx to a publication. That worked great if you remembered everything and everything looked right. If you didn't it was start over and repeat. It was an environment ripe for massive alcohol consumption either one way or the other. Acrobat changed all that, and I'm EXTERMELY thankful for it.

[adamknight]

Awesome, love bringing in history of something into the conversation. Could you also cover compression, like zip, arj, rar etc.

[uss_]

I still own a PDF to DTF (Dead Tree Format) conversion tool, the Printer.

[cernsb]

When reading documents I much prefer them to come in a format that means you don't accidentally edit them. Also when publishing it is normally desirable to have a format that is difficult to edit

[annjrue]

TechQuickie has turned from Linus explaining things really well to Linus whining about things really well.

[AngryBulldogGaming]

next video: PDFs pretend to care about gamers.