The lovecraftian horror of pdf mostly comes into play through the sheer amount of software that supply almost correct pdf. It's not enough to be able to read pdf anymore, you also have to be able to deal with software that emits subtly wrong documents.
replyThat's part of it, but the design of PDF really doesn't help
replyAdobe really have perfected act of making the most shoddy software that is still possible to sell
replyI'm reminded of "PSD is not my favourite file format."
replyhttps://b3n.org/psd-is-not-my-favourite-file-format/
or in the code:
I'm aware thanks. Mostly it's just my preferred viewer is older than css4 but it's been nice to find out why that was the case.
replyPDFs can be painful as well, more often it's then using abode's pdf viewer, but it's far less common for me. There was a time many years ago when I understood PDF structures better, back when I chose to manually edit and fix a couple of malformed PDFs.
I was floored to discover this recently when I clicked "edit" in calibre for the first time a few weeks ago.
replyStraight HTML, edit anything everywhere. Super slick.