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Re:Wkhtmltopdf Considered Harmful by smacktoward on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:05PM (#17567604)
> PDF is an ancient format, as old as the Web. It was introduced in 1993

Just because something is old doesn't mean it's bad. "Old" can also mean "well-understood" and "widely implemented," both of which are true of PDF. I can make a PDF and be reasonably confident that it can be read on any platform under the sun, and that someone needing to transform it will have plenty of tools available to do so. Neither of these things are true of XPS, or really any other competing format save HTML, which isn't really comparable as it aims to solve different problems than PDF does.

There are definitely things to not like about PDF, but its age isn't one of them.

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Re:Wkhtmltopdf Considered Harmful by icebraining on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:07PM (#17567632)
I think that's exactly OP's point - PDF is old, therefore is should be widely implemented, so "you’d think wkhtmltopdf would be easy to avoid."

It's not a dig against the format.

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