As someone who has had to work with PDFs from a technical perspective, PDF is hot mess of a file format. The fact it works at all is as much a testament to mankind’s arrogance and stubborness as the city of Phoenix existing.
Adobe Acrobat is so bad that people have started hating pdf
That’s like 80% of it, as well as stuff that really doesn’t need to be a PDF but someone decided it should be un-editable so the thing you needed from it actually doesn’t work.
Unironically, the most incompetent and technically annoying file format to work with.
Annoying to edit, yeah, but it’s a pretty good format for making sure no information on the page moves around.
My hypothesis is that Adobe Acrobat is so bad that people have started hating pdf.
As someone who has had to work with PDFs from a technical perspective, PDF is hot mess of a file format. The fact it works at all is as much a testament to mankind’s arrogance and stubborness as the city of Phoenix existing.
I work with pdfs as a designer and they’ve been pretty trustworthy, but I am now burdened with the knowledge that they are a mess behind the scenes.
That’s like 80% of it, as well as stuff that really doesn’t need to be a PDF but someone decided it should be un-editable so the thing you needed from it actually doesn’t work.