Re:The Editable PDF Initiative
by roenxi on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @09:30PM
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The FAQ addressing an objection doesn't mean that the objection is overcome.
If I send you a PDF the point is that I don't want you to edit it. Otherwise I would have sent a docx file. An 'editable PDF' may as well get lumped in to the OpenDocument standard. It is already universally editable and I'm sure it has support for adding application-specific metadata.
Having a PDF editor isn't some violation of sacred principles; but making changes to the standard to make it easy to edit is not improving the situation. I want to send a format that is hard to edit.
If I send you a PDF the point is that I don't want you to edit it. Otherwise I would have sent a docx file. An 'editable PDF' may as well get lumped in to the OpenDocument standard. It is already universally editable and I'm sure it has support for adding application-specific metadata.
Having a PDF editor isn't some violation of sacred principles; but making changes to the standard to make it easy to edit is not improving the situation. I want to send a format that is hard to edit.