Comment by chaps

Comment by chaps 10 months ago

They also support iframes! The absolute madness of PDFs is a world wonder. But I'm really still not sure we could do without them.

bityard 10 months ago

Gzipped PostScript documents were fairly popular during the 90's and are functionally identical to PDFs for 99% of use cases. (PDF is essentially PostScript, but with more features.)

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kccqzy 10 months ago

For Gzipped PostScript, code execution is its raison d'être. But it is at least possible to build a PDF viewer without code execution.

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necovek 10 months ago

Well, both a simpler language more geared toward presentation, but also including more modern features designed for on-screen viewing.

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