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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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