| It sounds like it will make viewing papers and such that are PDFs much more convenient, eventually. But it really makes you question the idea of putting things into PDF format in the first place. Because at this point it may be that a significant majority of the time PDFs are read on screens. So in my opinion it might make more sense for acedemic journals (for example) to standardize on a something like reStructuredText (which now supports LaTeX by default). Or maybe Markdown, or a subset of HTML. Or maybe a standard eReader (Kindle-like) format. Or just default to a tar.gz with the RST and supporting files in standard folders. Then if they want to publish a print journal they can automatically format it for printing. If it doesn't look good enough sometimes then let the print journals use AI or manually typeset it (earn their money). So anyway I wish Chrome and Firefox would get support for my new RST archive format. Point being that PDF is getting a little obsolete. |