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PDF has an additional con. It sucks for office work
Of course it sucks for office work! It's not supposed to be used for office work! For fuck's sake, haven't you been paying attention? We keep telling you that's NOT what PDF is for, and you keep accusing us of wanting to use PDF for everything.
Say I want you to edit my document, and I send you a nice big JPG screenshot of it. Do you get angry at the JPG format because you can't edit it? How is that any different than blaming PDF?
This is what you're doing here. It's not the fault of JPG for being uneditable, just as it's not the fault of PDF for being uneditable. You should be angry at me for sending you the wrong format, and you should be angry at yourself for not properly informing me of what you needed.
Also, if you're a "designer", what the fuck are you doing in /prog? Go suck some Adobe cock elsewhere. We're Haskell/Python/Ruby/* trolls here, not "designers".
I like how you think everyone who likes PDF is a "designer". Hey genius, if you do a CTRL+F on this thread, you'd notice that you're the only one here who says the word "designer".
Many of us are scientists. Computer scientists, computer engineers, physicists... PDF is absolutely vital to publishing papers with any decent formatting at all. You don't have to be a graphics designer to want your paper to look good, but you DO need PDF to publish it electronically.
Now I know you hate PDFs, but grab a decent PDF viewer and take a moment to look at what a decently formatted article looks like:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0703742
Scroll through it for a second. Take a good luck at the math. The computer algorithms. The figures. The data tables. All of this makes the article easy to read.
None of that shit is possible in plaintext. None of that is possible in HTML/CSS (good luck getting math and inset figures looking that good, and being that easy to read, in HTML).
And yes, I really did just go to Arxiv, click Astrophysics->New, and pick the very first article that popped up. It's that easy to find articles that absolutely require PDF to be published.
You want to read tiny Times text with goatse-anus-sized margins? You can.
It's called the zoom tool shithead. I can't even fathom how your brain manages to process the most basic of information.