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[Shawn K. Quinn]

On 4/4/22 17:12, Karl Semich wrote:
> Regarding alternatives to PDF, a clear format is plaintext. This is 
> easier to read and trust from a text-only environment, and can be 
> smaller and easier to transfer. There are tools to convert pdfs or epubs 
> to plaintext, but often the output needs a lot of hand-massaging to look 
> nice.

It is difficult to include illustrations, diagrams, etc in plain text. 
At best, it's an alternative for only the simplest of texts where 
formatting, page numbers, font selection, etc are not as important as 
the text itself.

Maybe I should have asked, instead: what's wrong with PDF? What makes 
something like (for example) DJVU so much better?

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Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn at rushpost.com>