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		DeathArrow on Dec 4, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: History of the PDF PDF as a format is bad when you want to edit or extract text. But do we have an alternative to it that is as portable?

FuriouslyAdrift on Dec 4, 2023 [–]

That's because it's intent is for output rendering and not editing. There source document(s) are what is used for editing.

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