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		kccqzy on Nov 21, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Editable PDF Initiative PDF gives you all the tools to make sure that doesn't happen. No one prevents you from shooting yourself in the foot by writing a bad PDF that doesn't adhere to common good practices. For example it is technically possible to make a PDF with text without embedding fonts. Doing that is a bad idea. By your argument, any programming language, no much how safe it purports to be, fails because they allow you to write bugs.

blunte on Nov 22, 2019 [–]

This was about the claim that PDFs provide consistent/identical document representation on every device.

Few programming languages claim to provide bug free programs, so your example is irrelevant.

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