On 2014-11-16, at 14:09, zMan wrote: > Sorry you think it "makes no sense". It makes lots of sense to those of us > who have to use it a lot for more than just reading random documents. And > it sure PRETENDS to be a lot more than just a way to PRINT a document (and > even then, it's hardly as portable as it would like to pretend it is). > Indeed; PDF is bloated.
A modest proposal: The Principles of Operation should be available in machine readable form sufficiently concise and complete to serve as input for automatic generation of a disassembler. Such a document could likewise serve a input to a filter generating HTML or other hypertext media; PDF; odt; ods; ...; quodlibet. -- gil
