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Re:PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later by dragonwriter on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @10:59AM (#24132677)
> What would it take to replace PDF with a zipped html

EPUB. It's already zipped HTML and supports fixed layout.

Or, perhaps more simply, maybe just HTML + paged.js.

> all that is missing is a "page model" for html which would have to be invented.

CSS paged media is already a thing. What else do you need?

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