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(In case folks don't know, PNG better for text because JPG's compression introduces "ringing" artifacts around sharp edges, such as the black/white transition o
by linuxlizard 10y ago
(In case folks don't know, PNG better for text because JPG's compression introduces "ringing" artifacts around sharp edges, such as the black/white transition of text.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringing_artifacts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringing_artifacts
- xrorre 10y agoJPGs are also a lot safer as PDFs can ping remote resources using carefully hidden beacon images. Although that said, I sometimes use this to see who opened my files. I once left hundreds of these on a very popular cloud hosting provider (not naming names), and somebody working there was stupid to open the PDF on a machine connected to the internet, thereby proving abuse by employees and proving any random stranger can access 'your' files in the so called 'cloud'. Look up 'honeydocs'. Some interesting articles about this technique
- DarkLinkXXXX 10y agoIs that effective for non-adobe pdf viewers? What about the ones that disable javascript?
- nexar 10y agoLook into canarytokens. Plenty of file types that do not rely on JavaScript nor macros etc
- MichaelGG 10y agoMaybe it was an indexer that for whatever reason runs the full PDF handling code?