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Comment by brailsafe

17 hours ago

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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marcosdumay  15 hours ago

> 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!

  • jaggederest  12 hours ago

    Well, it's a descendant of Postscript (much like JSON is a descendant of Javascript, loosely)

    Society would probably never recover if we started implementing RPC-in-Postscript though.

embedding-shape  16 hours ago

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.