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It was a fight between DiskPaper and PDF. PDF won because the tools were better and it was cross-platform.

And PDF is a subset of PostScript, the product that made Adobe and the DTP industry.

It's janky because the goal was to render identically everywhere. If you think it's easy look at the code abortion that is CSS.