The Zombie Stack Exchanges That Just Won't Die
PDF is almost a de facto standard when it comes to exchanging documents. One of the best things is that always, on each machine, the page numbers stay the same, so it can be easily cited in academic publications etc.
But de facto standard is also opening PDFs with Acrobat Reader. So the single company is making it all functioning fluently.
However, thinking in longer perspective, say 50 years, is it a good idea to store documents as PDFs? Is the PDF format documented good enough to ensure that after 50 years it will be relatively easy to write software that will read such documents, taking into account that PDF may be then completely deprecated and no longer supported?
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