Any help on making text better is appreciated. Blogspam... May be, but consider that PDF were published a long time ago and not that many Web people were interested until there came a way to use it in everyday practice.
Your first mistake?
> web people
You are not web people. You are a developer. Broaden your horizons and stop restricting your experience to the microcosm that is JS and the web in general. Once you do that you'll start to understand why the folks here have some issues with some of the suggestions you put forward.