I still find it mind-boggling how a format as royally fucked as PDF has become the de-facto standard for digital documents.
No, wait, actually it makes perfect sense.
@chucker @trinsec @fribbledom It’s a printer format designed for an imaginary (virtual) printers and so everything about it is software pretending to be as quirky as printer hardware, in almost every way
@trinsec @fribbledom thirty different ways to encode embedded images, for example