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torben-friis • yesterday at 10:29 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

>"Read this PDF" installs a pdf reader executable.

How does this work regarding Macos notarization btw?

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dvt • yesterday at 10:37 PM

I was actually curious, on my Mac, it uses `gs -q -sDEVICE=txtwrite -o output.txt input.pdf` (not sure why I have Ghostscript installed, maybe Adobe?) to read a PDF, and on my PC it just rawdogs `pdftotext`.

fragmede • yesterday at 10:33 PM

What does notarization have to do with that? You or ChatGPT or whatever download a signed and already notarized binary.

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