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by shanhaiguan 2608 days ago
That’s not a PDF issue though: it’s just an issue of most content being the same dimensions as real world paper sizes. No idea how responsive PDF would work but I agree that would be cool.
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People in these comments keep mentioning a responsive PDF, but PDF is supposed to be a presentation format. Wouldn’t HTML and CSS serve the purpose fine?
You can't represent vector graphics, complex math, or anything non-standard in HTML+CSS. Even if you could, you couldn't rely on the user seeing it correctly.
Aren’t SVG and MathML standard in HTML5?
Interesting; I'm not sure if it counts as "in HTML5" but I see they are referenced in the spec.

It's still not something you can rely upon.