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Bread and butter for developers who have to handle them ;)
by jlg23 9y ago
Bread and butter for developers who have to handle them ;)
- waynecochran 9y agoPDF is "bread and butter"? There is no fundamental reason why PDF's should be easier to process -- in fact, PS files are far more transparent being simple text files (also capable of holding binary data as well).
- jlg23 9y agoPDFs are hell to process, pretty much like all formats developed by Adobe that evolved through multiple versions... Edit: I wrote parsers for PDF and PSD in CL years ago and still cringe when remembering that ordeal.
- dfox 9y agoPDF is also plain text file, with one slight caveat that PDF page index contains byte offsets into the file. [Edit: this observation should probably be taken as relative to various other "plain-text with byte offsets as decimal ASCII number" I have seen, with PDF being the most sane from the set of such formats I've seen, with Netscape/Mozilla Mork beeing the most insane]