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by trelane 1238 days ago
Going from open to proprietary formats seems to be the wrong direction.
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layer8 1238 days ago
Docx is similarly open as PDF. (And full Adobe Acrobat compatibility is similarly difficult as full Microsoft Word compatibility. PDF has an edge here in practice because most use cases are read-only, or only very limited modification.)
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trelane 1235 days ago
> Docx is similarly open as PDF.

This is not true, as far as I can tell.

> PDF has an edge here in practice because most use cases are read-only

I think many folks would be extremely happy to have full-fidelity read-only access to Microsoft formats without having to have Microsoft Office.

On the other side, it's _extremely_ common to both produce and consume PDF without over touching an Adobe product.

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