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Comment author: vi21maobk9vp 03 July 2012 05:18:25AM 1 point [-]

Sorry? The problem equally applies to HTML and to everything you can read online. Also, PDF is well thought-out as a format with specific purpose. If you want to know exactly an for sure what the reader will see, you could use PDF and succeed or use HTML and make the existing problems of Web worse.

Comment author: shokwave 03 July 2012 06:27:57AM 1 point [-]

PDF is well thought-out as a format with specific purpose

I really wish I could agree with you, but I've read parts of the specification of the pdf file format. Perhaps the goal was well-thought-out, but certainly the format itself is not.

Comment author: [deleted] 03 July 2012 07:29:54AM 0 points [-]

Ignoring the barrier to entry involved in competing with a de facto standard like .pdf, are there any viable alternatives available?