We have a lot of documentation and clues, so it shouldn't be that bad. There are decades of rants about the shortcomings of the pdf format, at least :) Those f

We have a lot of documentation and clues, so it shouldn't be that bad. There are decades of rants about the shortcomings of the pdf format, at least :) Those formats are also more logical(ish) than human language, so reverse engineering them should be possible in some cases. Also, there will be plenty of 'rosetta stones' around: media that exists in both an obsolete format and a more recent, better understood one.