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This compain can be applied to paper too. PDF is not much more than precise document to be printed or exactly visually presented.
by czechdeveloper 6y ago
This compain can be applied to paper too. PDF is not much more than precise document to be printed or exactly visually presented.
- monadic2 6y agoIs PDF not supposed to improve on paper...? I'm rather surprised at the revelation that PDF is not accessible.
- czechdeveloper 6y agoMy use is exclusively "this will end up on paper in a minute", so any improvement would be irrelevant. Why would I want document type that can't even refloat on display size to represent any longer written text that is supposed to be consumed on digital device?
- monadic2 6y agoI would ask a blind person.
- dirkt 6y agoPDF is tied to page layout. PDF is a way to digitally describe something that's intended to be printed to paper, on a sheet of a certain size. And as a format, it's much more sane than, say, Word or Excel. Even if the focus on "where do I put this glyph" means the original text isn't in there by default.
- monadic2 6y agoYea, but that's a terrible explanation for lack of basic accessibility in 2020. Literally just laziness. FWIW this is not a technical barrier; it would be absolutely trivial to associated blocks of non-flowed text with the layed out text.