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brailsafetoday at 1:13 AM3 repliesview on HN

Heh, have at it, here's the full spec: https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/docs/assets/5b...

Should take... a weekend tops? ;) PDF is crazy and scary


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marcosdumaytoday at 3:15 AM

> PDF includes eight basic types of objects: Boolean values, Integer and Real numbers, Strings, Names, Arrays, Dictionaries, Streams, and the null object

Wait, this is more complete than SOAP. It may be a good idea to redo the IPC protocol with a different serialization format!

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embedding-shapetoday at 1:54 AM

7.5.6 "Incremental updates" from the specification is an interesting section too, speaking about accessing data people didn't think to remove from PDF files properly.

CamperBob2today at 1:56 AM

We will be able to say that AGI has arrived when we can hand that spec off to a model and tell it to build an Acrobat clone.

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