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echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
PDF

PDF is known well to everyone who has even seen a computer being used in the past 15 years

but what is a pdf

according to the wikipedia

wikipaedia posted:

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format used to present documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.[2] Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout flat document, including the text, fonts, graphics, and other information needed to display it."
but what use is a pdf


a pdf can be a book. a pdf can hold a jpg file. pdfs can be exploited. a pdf is a file that fits on a usb shaft.







if you ask me.. we need more pdf in our lives

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echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
adoe illustrator cannot export a file as a pdf

what it can do is save the current file as a pdf. this functionality sucks and I hate it. I don't want to now be editing a future pdf. I justte want to export a pdf. A PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT FOR FUCKS SAKE

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
I have a book in pdf format. its actually a poo poo load of pictures in a pdf file. pdf has the abikity to be anything. its the zombo.com of file formats

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
apple macs can natively look at pdfs.. can windows? apple iphones CANNOT natively look at QR codes. this is hosed

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
pdfs can be viruses much like people get aids and hepatitis c

pdfs ARE NOT susceptible to bacterial infections. pdfs are at no risk at contracting anthrax

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

echinopsis posted:

adoe illustrator cannot export a file as a pdf

what it can do is save the current file as a pdf. this functionality sucks and I hate it. I don't want to now be editing a future pdf. I justte want to export a pdf. A PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT FOR FUCKS SAKE

file > save a copy :confused:

what difference would export be besides the name of the functionality

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Fun Shoe
pity reply

Bored Online
May 25, 2009

We don't need Rome telling us what to do.
voted five for zombo.com

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

echinopsis posted:

apple macs can natively look at pdfs.. can windows? apple iphones CANNOT natively look at QR codes. this is hosed

they can also natively edit them

Suspicious
Apr 30, 2005
You know he's the villain, because he's got shifty eyes.
microsoft: ok let's add native support for viewing and editing pdfs in windows.
(the next day)
microsoft: wtf where are all these lawsuits coming from??

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

mishaq posted:

they can also natively edit them

on macs, everything u see is a pdf

really makes u think

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003
tfw pdf "form" thats not fillable

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003
tfw pdf "document" thats just a picture of text

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

Smythe posted:

tfw pdf "document" thats just a picture of text

:argh:

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

Smythe posted:

tfw pdf "document" thats just a picture of text

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

qirex posted:

file > save a copy :confused:

what difference would export be besides the name of the functionality

this is some of that sweet sweet pro move poo poo only you can teach me

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Smythe posted:

tfw pdf "form" thats not fillable

print
fill out
scan
save as image in pdf
then

Smythe posted:

tfw pdf "document" thats just a picture of text

jony ive aces
Jun 14, 2012

designer of the lomarf car


Buglord

echinopsis posted:

if you ask me.. we need more pdf in our lives
:agreed: everyone needs to let pdf into their hearts

go play outside Skyler
Nov 7, 2005


echinopsis posted:

adoe illustrator cannot export a file as a pdf

what it can do is save the current file as a pdf. this functionality sucks and I hate it. I don't want to now be editing a future pdf. I justte want to export a pdf. A PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT FOR FUCKS SAKE

that's because the export feature in illustrator is mostly for raster formats, dumb gently caress

also, like whoever said, save a copy

go play outside Skyler
Nov 7, 2005


did you know? .ai is actually a .pdf!

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

go play outside Skyler posted:

that's because the export feature in illustrator is mostly for raster formats, dumb gently caress

also, like whoever said, save a copy

it just occurred to me that export would still be exactly if i wanted because i have large documents with many art boards but i only want to export one or another as a single one pdf to email or distribute .. i don't want to maintain two files to do this

if save as does this already i'll gently caress my boots and suck on your dads titties

go play outside Skyler
Nov 7, 2005


echinopsis posted:

it just occurred to me that export would still be exactly if i wanted because i have large documents with many art boards but i only want to export one or another as a single one pdf to email or distribute .. i don't want to maintain two files to do this

if save as does this already i'll gently caress my boots and suck on your dads titties



my dad's tits are very dry tia

.lnk to the past
May 3, 2005

psoting while drunk

Smythe posted:

tfw pdf "document" thats just a picture of text

:cry:

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

PDFs are actually extremely bad and the root of almost all evil on computers

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN
MASTER




shit wizard dad

people who 'redact' pdfs by drawing a black square with the shape tool and then freak out when you do the select all / copy / paste thing... "but there's five years of documents published like this on our public site!!"

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

i love having to sift through 90 pages of stuff about iso 9001 certification and phone numbers for regional sales offices to find the 3/4 page of actually useful info that should have just been on a webpage to begin with

wide stance
Jan 28, 2011

If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then he will do it that way.
Thought it was Potable Document Format.

A document safe to use and ingest, free of excessive bacteria and virii.

Pile Of Garbage
May 28, 2007



it's pronounced PDF with a hard D

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde

echinopsis posted:

usb shaft.
smh @ british english

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

i'll be phillips digital face

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

carry on then posted:

on macs, everything u see is a pdf

really makes u think

its true quartz is pdfs with pdfs inside

go play outside Skyler posted:

that's because the export feature in illustrator is mostly for raster formats, dumb gently caress

also, like whoever said, save a copy

yarp ai is vectors homey

that or print to pdf

Smythe posted:

tfw pdf "document" thats just a picture of text

oh hell yeah baby

Captain Foo posted:

PDFs are actually extremely bad and the root of almost all evil on computers

dont blame wackrobat for being a dumpsterfire

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde

Captain Foo posted:

PDFs are actually extremely bad and the root of almost all evil on computers
PDFs are good

Wrath of the Bitch King
May 11, 2005

Research confirms that black is a color like silver is a color, and that beyond black is clarity.

Gazpacho posted:

PDFs are good

They still make PCL real mad

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

pdfs suck for extracting data out of programmatically

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde

Bloody posted:

pdfs suck for extracting data out of programmatically
use your eyes, duh

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

that is a slow manual process. i wanna process thousands of datasheets

Apocadall
Mar 25, 2010

Aren't you the guitarist for the feed dogs?

https://partkeepr.org/

i use this for organizing parts and datasheets

qirex
Feb 15, 2001


now watch him complain that you can't export non-sequential pages you can

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
i learn through complaining and having people bow to my whining with lessons and wisdom

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Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

echinopsis posted:

i learn through complaining and having people bow to my whining with lessons and wisdom

did u know???

any program that can print in osx can export as pdf. theres a thingy in the corner of the print dialog that lets u save the printed form of whatever it is as a pdf. spiffy

pdf all the things

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