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0 pointssteipete7y ago0 comments

Think construction plans, PowerPoint presentations, contracts - there are many documents that don't fit the classical Word document model.

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goatlover7y ago· 1 in thread

But why would one expect a browser to support that feature for PDFs?

mkl7y ago

You wouldn't, and it doesn't. But webapps and websites can usefully do it.

eecc7y ago· 1 in thread

I wonder if the PDF file format is the best one for such kind of content

izacus7y ago

Turns out that it is - it's amazingly flexible and pretty much anything out there will be able to render it. There's practically no other formats that can claim that.

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