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PDFs arent like democracy at all
Pilchard123:
--- Quote ---PDFs arent like democracy at all
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--- Quote ---PDF [...] is a commercial product.
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I dunno, you're not doing your case much good here...
:V
Boxer:
Long time reader, first time poster... my job is records keeping, this bugged me.
PDFs are essential for democracy.
PDF/A is ISO 19005 standard used by government archives and libraries around the world as an embedded standard, but also as a loss-less preservation standard. Its also an open-source format now.
If we lost the ability to easily read PDFs (as the comic implies, and the following comic about how to read it). We would cripple most electronic records keeping functionality worldwide... creating unnecessary difficulty accessing information in a timely manner, the biggest impact would cripple the Freedom of Information policies and that would damage democracy.
Library of Congress article "PDF is Here to Stay"
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2020/03/pdf-is-here-to-stay/
... otherwise Adobe PDF Readers and Writers have always been pieces of garbage.
JoeCovenant:
--- Quote from: Boxer on 10 Jul 2020, 03:54 ---
...If we lost the ability to easily read PDFs (as the comic implies, and the following comic about how to read it). We would cripple most electronic records keeping functionality worldwide...
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Doesn't that make pdf a Dictatorship? :)
Boxer:
--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 10 Jul 2020, 04:34 ---Doesn't that make pdf a Dictatorship? :)
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No (its open source).
Since its an international record keeping standard... I would be more accurate to say that anyone in a position of power who refused to maintain Public Records (by any and all standards) could be a dictator by purposely hiding, destroying or obfuscating information from their government and their people.
https://time.com/5308542/trump-presidential-records-nixon/
cybersmurf:
--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 10 Jul 2020, 04:34 ---
--- Quote from: Boxer on 10 Jul 2020, 03:54 ---
...If we lost the ability to easily read PDFs (as the comic implies, and the following comic about how to read it). We would cripple most electronic records keeping functionality worldwide...
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Doesn't that make pdf a Dictatorship? :)
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You know, you could always send a Word document...
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