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[–] 39 points 1 day ago (5 children)

No. It is designed for print. It is used for screens (that's the crazy part). Something like HTML or epub is designed for screens. PDF later got extended with some features, that only make sense on screen but the original design is for print and it shows. For example everything has a fixed layout size (like paper). And most of the time the order of words got lost so you can not select text in a meaningful way (something that would not matter if it is printed).

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    you're thinking of display postscript? i think that was an extension of the original language.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_PDF

    PDF was developed to share documents, including text formatting and inline images, among computer users of disparate platforms who may not have access to mutually-compatible application software.[2]

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