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Re:Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated?... by lqdc13 on Sunday September 11, 2016 @12:23AM (#12472005)
The PDF spec is 1000 pages. Nobody seems to complain. Or at least they complain a lot less.
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Re:Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated?... by startling on Sunday September 11, 2016 @05:25AM (#12472613)
Fortunately the only people who can read 1000-page documents are those who already have working PDF renderers, so the problem is self-limiting.
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Re:Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated?... by tonyedgecombe on Sunday September 11, 2016 @02:24AM (#12472248)
You can ignore about 800 pages of that for most applications though.
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Re:Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated?... by alexott on Sunday September 11, 2016 @02:36AM (#12472281)
Not really, when you start to implement it, the more and more functionality required as you get more samples.
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