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InFerNo@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
“Print to file” to create a PDF, but it’s Microsoft’s stupid alternative format. Can’t even remember its name, nobody used it.
Comment on Save as PDF
InFerNo@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
“Print to file” to create a PDF, but it’s Microsoft’s stupid alternative format. Can’t even remember its name, nobody used it.
NotSafeForWorld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Fucking xps format. Like almost everything Microslop had touched, it can burn in software hell
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Agreed! I remember back in the day when they first created the docx format. Such bloated garbage. I think an empty file was like 100-200 KB. And PowerPoint files are unreasonably huge too
stoly@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I remember seeing an article about how the xlsx format description was several hundred pages in length.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
OOXML is over 600 pages, yes. With lots of contradictions and filker worsds btw. And a “standard” (with scandals abound) that has most of the format as proprietary extensions. And MS Office/365 doesn’t even keep to it, so other office suites never have as good support of the format as MS itself. Use ODF to save your documents. MS started their “standard” because of it anyway, fearing losing of their customer base (that bound them to Windows).
filcuk@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
That’s doesn’t seem unreasonable to me.
It’s a hugely important format used by countless archived documents.
We can’t just find out one day that nothing can read xlsx.
www.loc.gov/preservation/…/fdd000398.shtml
Limerance@piefed.social 2 days ago
Docx is bloated XML, but much better than the binary formats before.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Depends on what you mean by “better”. I have looked at the xml content before and never got the sense I could edit it anyhow, so any perceived benefit to it for me is far outweighed by the ginormous file sizes.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 days ago
The best part is Word for example now by default just outputs a PDF file if you tell it to export an XPS file, which gets extra funny if you have a licensed version of Acrobat installed because Acrobat installs an extension to also export as a PDF except it works worse!