Thorsted, to random
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wtfpdf, to random
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wtfpdf, to random
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"Bad things can happen"

I actually initially considered that for my handle, but eventually whittled it down to . 🤣🤣🤣

https://pdfa.org/parsing-pdfs-dialects/

bitsgalore, to random
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meets meets meets (possibly?) - this comment to a 2013 blog post by @acdha really has it all:

"I have built a document management system for home use. I did research on the above. I love JPEG2000 because it’s in PDF. Today you have high quality javascript renderers that can show PDF including the JPEG2000. The only REAL problem I found was the scaling limit on the various linux and windows renderers."

Thorsted, to random
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wtfpdf, to random
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Starting to pack for . See you there?

bitsgalore, to ChatGPT
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In today's news - Foxit integrates into Editor Cloud, use cases include "have a conversation with PDF and answer user questions based on PDF content"😱:

https://pdfa.org/pdf-editor-cloud-integration-with-chatgpt/

(I sincerely hope I'll never feel the urge to have a conversation with PDF. Sounds like something that would require urgent medical assistance!)

wtfpdf,
@wtfpdf@mastodon.social avatar

@bitsgalore This is the only conversation I can imagine having with a PDF: https://tenor.com/view/office-space-gif-18166316

bitsgalore, to random
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I explored to what extent and can be used to identify features that are potential preservation risks. Check out this (massive!) blog post for the full lowdown :

https://www.bitsgalore.org/2023/05/25/identification-of-pdf-preservation-risks-with-verapdf-and-jhove

bitsgalore, to random
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Fascinating paper by University of Illinois researchers on text redaction in :

  • Subpixel-sized horizontal shifts in redacted and non-redacted characters can be recovered and used to effectively deredact first and last names.

  • Majority of PDF redaction software tool-kits do not defend against these glyph displacement attacks.

  • In general, redacting a name from a PDF is not secure! 😱

Full paper here:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.02285.pdf

jonippolito, to random
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Today a friend approached me stymied by trying to copy-paste a number—yep, one single number—out of a PDF.

A collection of PDFs isn't an archive; it's a tomb.

mickylindlar, to random
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Aight. so i'll take out a bit of time today to try to trouble-shoot a PDF validation error. Stressing "try" here, in my experience this is rarely completed successfully. thought i'd share some steps here to see if other's have input.

JHOVE error du jour is:
PDF-HUL-104 Expected dictionary for font entry in page resource

🧵 below (if i manage to operate mastodon correctly, that is).

mickylindlar,
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So to summarize the story so far .... we've moved from 1 error reported by JHOVE and a different one reported by pdfcpu (and none by qpdf) to 8 font syntax errors with pdffonts and 76 font errors with Adobe Preflight.

The logical summary so far is of course
I shall continue to dig deeper later on. Now off to meetings for the rest of the afternoon!

mickylindlar,
@mickylindlar@digipres.club avatar

k, so with a bit of time this morning before meetings, i'll continue to look at the issue from this 🧵 .

Yesterday I figured out that we have 76 font errors on page 2. Looking at page 2, i can confirm there's an issue .... please see for yourself:

mickylindlar,
@mickylindlar@digipres.club avatar

back for some fun with the font-problem

as we learned ⬆️ the font problem is on page 2 / obj 6. with
pdf-parser -o 6 filename.pdf
we can take a quick look at the content of obj 6.
This returns an odd Font dictionary, that lists 4 names (/F16, /F18, /F26, /F28, /F36, /F38) with "null" instead of the expected indirect object.
which makes them a bit hard to find, to put it nicely.

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