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[–] MsPenguinette@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Maybe it's just me but I feel like PDFs are significantly a less common part of life nowadays. Especially when it comes to having to edit one

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah. You're likely in the wrong job for it then. They are incredibly popular in any sort of digital paperwork job.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago

Can confirm, we're using PDF for any sort of pretty formatted documents/reports we're sending to clients.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Just about every financial institution will use PDFs. Now editing PDFs, that’s slightly different (but only so slightly). Used to be you had to use a certain tech giant’s monolithic and expensive software to create/edit PDFs, but these days it’s second nature; maybe to the point that you’ve stopped noticing?

[–] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I’m curious. What other format you have to send and receive documents?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

Uncompressed .BMP files from Windows 3.11 MS Paint

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 12 points 1 month ago
[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

LaTeX
If you want me to read it, you better put effort into writing it.

[–] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 weeks ago

I tried to write my master dissertation in LaTeX. Emphasis on “tried”.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

It's just you.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 4 points 4 weeks ago

God I WISH that were true because I personally fucking hate them.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 4 weeks ago

They have unfortuantely become a standard for sharing documents because they can be opened on a browser, on almost any device.