• crow@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Why is that? It’s not like PDF’s are new. If it’s licensing are there non-legal PDF editors that work well?

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      1 year ago

      Well, there’s Acrobat. I think that the issue is that PDF is a deceptively complicated format. It’s basically a programming language for describing pages to print. So it’s not like parsing a JPG or something, you need a PDF interpreter. And I imagine the Adobe one is encumbered.

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        1 year ago

        Probably the same reason it takes so long to come up with third party flash interpreters.

        I mean flash isn’t exactly new, but for the longest time there was only Adobe flash.