https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40163
--- Comment #47 from Tristan Miller <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #46) > PDF is a document format basically to share text with graphics. And those > documents are usually standardized in A4 or letter. Your definition is considerably narrower than the one used by the PDF standard itself, which calls PDF a format for "document" or "information" interchange, and says that this information may consist of text and graphics, but does not require that it contain both. As explained in a previous comment, it is common in both desktop and professional publishing for purely graphical information to be stored in a tightly bounded PDF. This is the de facto standard way of including graphics in LaTeX (which is ubiquitous in many academic fields) and of submitting vector artwork to commercial publishers of books and magazines. In short, not everyone uses PDF exclusively for standalone text-and-graphics documents intended for printing on A4 or letter paper; other use cases are hardly unusual. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
