• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    the fact that they embedded it inline so it downloads instead of rendering on the page.

    it’s because most of these sites are hosted from vendors that charge per “change” and small businesses will point their dynamic stuff to google drive which doesn’t always allow stuff to be embedded and rendered within HTML. google does this to combat abuse like this where companies will host their entire website from a Google drive for “free”.

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      My assumption would’ve been they do PDFs, because they have the same menu printed out in their restaurant. They’re gonna need an A4/letter size format either way, so PDF is the simplest way of putting that same format onto their webpage.

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        you’re correct.

        also, PDFs aren’t limited to A4. I have PDFs that span thousands of A4 pages that is meant for a large format plotter printer.