Re:PDF is not portable in the digital world
by klodolph on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @10:47AM
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The share buttons and navigation chrome certainly can be put in a PDF, they're just incredibly uncommon. I've even played video games that were distributed as PDF files.
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Re:PDF is not portable in the digital world
by mercer on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @10:53AM
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Pdf games? Do you have an example you could send me, perhaps? I'm really curious.
Re:PDF is not portable in the digital world
by klodolph on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @01:27PM
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The ones I played were adventure games, basically a bunch of areas (implemented as pages) linked by buttons, with some extra logic thrown in. If you can imagine the kind of scripting capabilities you'd need to run a PowerPoint style presentation from a PDF file, and the kind of scripting you'd need to make sophisticated interactive forms, you're on the write track.
Unfortunately I don't know what the games I played were called.