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PDF is also a lot less powerful, purposefully so. You can start an infinite loop just by double-clicking a PS file, for instance. It is extremely useful to hav
by tambourine_man 10mo ago
PDF is also a lot less powerful, purposefully so. You can start an infinite loop just by double-clicking a PS file, for instance.
It is extremely useful to have a full programing language as a file format, though.
I miss macOS’s Preview.app auto-converting PS to PDF when double-clicked. It was a way to easily distribute a document that could randomize question orders each time it opened, print multiple bingo cards from a single file, etc.
The stack-based and reverse Polish notation thing was also fun.
- eru 10mo agoYou could have made a deliberately restricted subset of PS without going all binary. Btw, doesn't PDF include Javascript these days? So you can still randomise stuff at view-time in a PDF. See https://th0mas.nl/2025/01/12/tetris-in-a-pdf/ https://th0mas.nl/2025/01/12/tetris-in-a-pdf/