{"id":6410,"date":"2017-07-06T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=6410"},"modified":"2017-07-06T14:24:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T18:24:57","slug":"should-we-abandon-pdfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=6410","title":{"rendered":"Should We Abandon PDFs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Robert Zaremba thinks we should; at least for publications that aren&rsquo;t going to end up printed on paper. His argument is that <a href=\"http:\/\/rz.scale-it.pl\/2017\/07\/05\/stop_publishing_pdf.html\">PDFs don&rsquo;t work well on digital screens<\/a>. He has a point about PDFs not working very well on Smart Phones. I don&rsquo;t agree that they&rsquo;re bad on, say, iPads or many other digital display devices. <\/p>\n<p> I disagree very strongly with Zaremba about retiring PDF. I&rsquo;ve seen his arguments before and wasn&rsquo;t persuaded then either. As far as I&rsquo;m concerned, it remains the best portable document format available. The idea that it can be replaced by something like EPUB is a nonstarter for me. <\/p>\n<p> What do you think? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Zaremba thinks we should; at least for publications that aren&rsquo;t going to end up printed on paper. His argument is that PDFs don&rsquo;t work well on digital screens. He has a point about PDFs not working very well on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=6410\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-6410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6411,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410\/revisions\/6411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}