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Re:PDF Is the World's Most Important File Format by whenchamenia on Friday May 03, 2019 @02:07PM (#19820763)
Except for many, it doesen't. Why glorify a closed format that we spent decades trying to aviod just because its common now? The inherent issues persist.
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Re:PDF Is the World's Most Important File Format by starsinspace on Friday May 03, 2019 @02:17PM (#19820866)
PDF has been released as an open standard since 2008.
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Re:PDF Is the World's Most Important File Format by thro_away_n on Friday May 03, 2019 @02:26PM (#19820952)
198 CHF to obtain ISO 32000-2:2017 from ISO, however.
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Re:PDF Is the World's Most Important File Format by Arkanosis on Friday May 03, 2019 @04:44PM (#19822095)
That's the same price as C++ (ISO/IEC 14882:2017) and much cheaper than the entire languages codes standard (ISO 639-1:2002, ISO 639-2:1998, ISO 639-3:2007, ISO 639-4:2010 and ISO 639-5:2008).

I get your point, though.

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Re:PDF Is the World's Most Important File Format by boshomi on Friday May 03, 2019 @02:16PM (#19820853)
since ISO 32000-2 there is no proprietary technology included[1]

[1] https://www.iso.org/standard/63534.html

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Re:PDF Is the World's Most Important File Format by throwaway2048 on Friday May 03, 2019 @02:41PM (#19821089)
Not all PDFs are standards compliant, plenty are filled with acrobat only JS, embedded flash and form filling crap.
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Re:PDF Is the World's Most Important File Format by semi-extrinsic on Friday May 03, 2019 @03:39PM (#19821562)
As e.g. the fine men and women of Int. J. POC||GTFO have demonstrated, it's possible to embed all sorts of weird and wonderful things in a PDF. I think a format where it's possible to include as much as possible is better.

Just look at HTML. Would you rather have it be impossible to extend beyond text, images and stylesheets?

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Re:PDF Is the World's Most Important File Format by na85 on Friday May 03, 2019 @07:45PM (#19823256)
I would. The modern web is a rich-get-richer hellscape of surveillance and advertising.
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Re:PDF Is the World's Most Important File Format by icxa on Friday May 03, 2019 @06:38PM (#19822881)
Form filling is part of the standard, specifically, the process of applying an XFDF to a PDF, which even allows you to do things like present a remote web form and then inject the data into the PDF.
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Re:PDF Is the World's Most Important File Format by jimjimjim on Friday May 03, 2019 @05:04PM (#19822260)
html can include acrobat only JS and embedded flash and form filling crap.
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