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Re:PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later by leephillips on Monday August 10, 2020 @02:44PM (#24112589)
Interesting observations, but I don’t understand why you distinguish between PDF and hypertext, since of course PDF can contain hypertext.
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Re:PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later by jcrawfordor on Monday August 10, 2020 @02:46PM (#24112618)
That might be part of the problem. :)

Really though I might not be using the best term, esp. with the definition of hypertext being one of those things that's a little historic now. I'm mostly just comparing between print formats and formats where layout is done by the viewer to reflect user preferences (which is kind of a dead concept with HTML anyway, but...)

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