PDF is an ISO standard now. Adobe can do whatever they want with their own fucked up files. Every other reader and writer are about ISO compliance. So do the standard libraries for all the programing languages used to generate PDFs to being with, like for example, when you ask you bank for a statement and they e-mail you a PDF. The vast majority of PDFs are programmatically generated anyway.
It’s true that Adobe products don’t care about standards compliance, but that’s a skill issue, you don’t need to use Adobe products. I’ve been using Linux since I can remember and I work with PDFs a lot. I don’t know what people want to be frank. At the end of the day the format that’s “winning” is none of this stuff, it’s Google Docs. People aren’t using files to begin with.
PDF is an ISO standard now. Adobe can do whatever they want with their own fucked up files. Every other reader and writer are about ISO compliance. So do the standard libraries for all the programing languages used to generate PDFs to being with, like for example, when you ask you bank for a statement and they e-mail you a PDF. The vast majority of PDFs are programmatically generated anyway.
It’s true that Adobe products don’t care about standards compliance, but that’s a skill issue, you don’t need to use Adobe products. I’ve been using Linux since I can remember and I work with PDFs a lot. I don’t know what people want to be frank. At the end of the day the format that’s “winning” is none of this stuff, it’s Google Docs. People aren’t using files to begin with.