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Doesn't svg have everything needed to replace pdf?
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@snacks popular word processors exporting to it seems smthng svg lacks no?

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@desea fair, i meant capabiluty wise. Obv pdf has a much bigger ecosystem
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@snacks @desea SVG can’t embed color profiles and otherwise uses non-linear sRGB only. useless for print.

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@snacks @desea oh wait maybe it can. it takes an IRI reference so you could probably base64-encode it

seriously though svg is all kinds of suck

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@mia @desea yeah but, technically you could hust rewrite all.kinds of pdf centric stuff to use svg instead and most features should still be there.
Was just some random tangemt because i was thinking pdf is basically a vector image format
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@snacks @desea SVG is very loosely defined though. with PDF you can at least expect the output to look the way you intended with any reasonable renderer. the average linux system has at least 3 SVG renderers, and they all disagree with each other

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@mia @snacks @desea worse! PDF is an entire scripting language (postscript) blobcatlobster
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@icedquinn @snacks @desea PDF can embed adobe flash and other media content. okular supports video in PDF to some extent 🙃

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@mia @snacks @desea i implemented [a version of] postscript a couple times. it's not bad. just a typed forth that loves dictionaries.

idk how svg scuffed itself so bad. i hear horror stories about the spec, though i rarely look in to it. i have to implement vector drawing for areth and for the most part i'm just going on postscript spec knowledge since postscript and quickdraw were the last meaningful contribution to drawing canvasses.
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