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Comment Re:"Challenging circumstances" were self-inflicted (Score 1, Insightful) 31

This is a lame take on it. They had 8 years to get it right.

8 YEARS.

Blaming customers? Seriously? Fuck off with that bullshit. They started development in Obama's first fucking term as President. Don't give me any of this "Its the customers fault" bullshit.

Comment Web Pages Use Same Imaging Model (Score 1) 227

Web pages use SVG to render vector graphics. It uses the exact same imaging model as PDF and is implemented in all modern browsers. The web in general has taken a lot of lessons from Adobe because Warnock and Geshke, in the PostScript Red Book, got so much right about how to build an image model that many GUI developers are still learning today. If you start with a PDF, it should be possible to machine-translate it to SVG and present it as a web page.

PDF exists because it is trivial to generate it from the document renderer meant for printing. Although I have once in a while run into an improperly scaled PDF meant to be printed 8-up, I'm just not

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