OOTL on this?

It’s a joke. PDF is a document format that you need to “export” rather than save in most word processing applications. I’m not sure why.

Okay yeah that makes more sense.

“Save As” by a different name I guess.

Except maybe it was because it’s not an editable format by the application? That was always silly… Why Adobe has a near monopoly on editing PDFs.

But the real tarrifs would be on importing them…

The reason for PDF „export“ is it’s origin. PDF in its early days had to be “printed” or “distilled” in a separate application because the process behind the format is the same as sending your file to be printed on a printer. This step changes the (editable) human readable file into (locked) printer readable code in the form of “post script”. PDF is in short nothing but a container that wraps around a bunch of post script code and makes it human readable again.

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