shokwave comments on What Would You Like To Read? A Quick Poll - Less Wrong

0 Post author: alyssavance 21 June 2012 12:38AM

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Comment author: shokwave 21 June 2012 07:56:02PM 4 points [-]

The structure of the specification is gigantic, lengthy, and wrong-headed on many points. It's a file format but it tries to define details of how it should be viewed (!!!). It is bloated and inefficient. It moves things away from becoming efficient data - plain text becomes formatted or even a flat picture of words.

Comment author: thomblake 22 June 2012 02:51:20PM 0 points [-]

As an illustration of how messed up the spec is, even Adobe Photoshop commonly fails to render PDFs the same way as Adobe Acrobat.