• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      8·
      3 days ago

      I was the annoying little shit in college asking my profs if they took it. I’m surprised none used that opportunity to tell me to use LaTeX (don’t worry my technical writing prof took plenty of opportunities to spread the good word format)

    • lud@lemm.ee
      5·
      2 days ago

      Who cares? Is it necessary to start these discussions every single time anything Microsoft whatsoever is mentioned? It’s just a dumb title likely used because it’s hard to come up with titles. Can’t we just focus on the actual meme instead or just move on?

    • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      The orange tumor isn’t interested in throwing a tariff on pdf for a free format. This guy wants you to buy macroshaft products.

  • Lumidaub@feddit.orgEnglish
    22·
    3 days ago

    No problem, everybody just migrate over to tumblr, the next-generation PDF, problem solved.

    • Mongostein@lemmy.ca
      6·
      2 days ago

      It’s a joke. PDF is a document format that you need to “export” rather than save in most word processing applications. I’m not sure why.

      • Veneroso@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Okay yeah that makes more sense.

        “Save As” by a different name I guess.

        Except maybe it was because it’s not an editable format by the application? That was always silly… Why Adobe has a near monopoly on editing PDFs.

        But the real tarrifs would be on importing them…

        • phneutral@feddit.org
          3·
          1 day ago

          The reason for PDF „export“ is it’s origin. PDF in its early days had to be “printed” or “distilled” in a separate application because the process behind the format is the same as sending your file to be printed on a printer. This step changes the (editable) human readable file into (locked) printer readable code in the form of “post script”. PDF is in short nothing but a container that wraps around a bunch of post script code and makes it human readable again.

          @[email protected]

          • Veneroso@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 day ago

            That makes a lot of sense. Thanks!

            Probably what Microsoft ripped off for the XPS printer lol.

        • Redex@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 days ago

          Yeah I think in general “export” is used for cases where you’re saving to an application’s non-native file type, whilst save as is more often for “save as a new file somewhere else”, tho I’ve seen a lot of apps allow you to use “save as” to save to a uneditable format.

          • NiHaDuncan@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 days ago

            Depending on the program, there can indeed be a significant difference between exporting and ‘saving as’. For example, Excel will export as a csv in the standard format just fine, but if you ‘save as’ csv it’ll come with extra formatting symbols specific to Excel that’ll wreck attempts to use it in other programs that don’t handle for it.

  • morrowind@lemmy.ml
    9·
    3 days ago

    Well pdf is overused anyway. Maybe we can get some more use of epub or just straight up html