Comment on: Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
I think this is misguided.> a PDF viewer can't even independently choose its own text and background color without the desktop environment messing with itIt can, it just chose to reuse the theming settings of it's platfo
A PDF Parser from the 80s Beats Claude (And They Use It Internally)
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Comment on: Adaptive PDFs
Shouldn’t it be possible since forever to put machine readable source information into PDF metadata. It’s more a problem of the tools and programs generating the PDFs.We spend millions turning structured information into PDFs and billions to extract the same data from a printer rendering language
Comment on: A PDF that changes based on how its read
Why would you use the exact same technique? Remove all fonts and all text from the PDF and render everything as vector graphics. It’s an old trick to prevent people from extracting paid commercial fonts from your PDF.And of course, OCR doesn’t work here just like it doesn’t work for the original use case.