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Comment by brailsafe

13 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  11 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  9 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  13 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.

CamperBob2  13 hours ago

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.