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> it was gibberish, because it inexplicably shuffled all the character codepoints. I forget what they called it, but that was a feature touted by Adobe and oth
by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
> it was gibberish, because it inexplicably shuffled all the character codepoints.
I forget what they called it, but that was a feature touted by Adobe and others a few years ago as a sort of pseudo-DRM. I have encountered many pdfs like that years ago, and think many pdf readers nowadays have features to undo the text scrambling.
- crazygringo 2y agoYeah, I'm aware something like that has been a feature. But this was just printing from Chrome and using the macOS built-in Save to PDF in the printer dialog. This was a straight-up bug which I filed with Chromium but there was nothing they could do because it was a bug in macOS. It did finally get fixed after a couple of years by Apple.