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Even PDFs can be inexplicably bloated. This cropped up on HN discussion a week ago. There was an 11MB bloated PDF, and a 500KB PDF, of the same article, with no
by MaxBarraclough 6y ago
Even PDFs can be inexplicably bloated. This cropped up on HN discussion a week ago. There was an 11MB bloated PDF, and a 500KB PDF, of the same article, with no visible difference between the two.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24035955 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24035955
> No auto-play animations, no animations at all, no bizarre hijacking of scrolling
HackerNews commits neither of these sins. They aren't universal to the modern web, even if they're annoyingly prevalent. Given sufficient incompetence, both PDFs and websites can be bloated monstrosities.
- ImaCake 6y agoI like your conclusion here. I've never needed an ad blocker for a PDF. But I also don't have a good pdf reader for all of my devices.