
2025-10-02 13:59:36
The Structure of a #PDF File
https://medium.com/@jberkenbilt/the-structure-of-a-pdf-file-6f08114a58f6
When you've had enough of automating every little thing and just want to get stuff done and end up manually generating a bunch of (very slow to generate) PDF plots, then concatenate all of them with #ghostScript, then extract the text with #pdf2txt, use a regex in Python to find some numbers and…
So you want to parse a #PDF?
https://eliot-jones.com/2025/8/pdf-parsing-xref
:librewolf: #LibreWolf's obsession with preventing everything HTML canvas is gettin on my nerves... It even ruins pasting images into the built-in #PDFjs PDF viewer, but you only realize that AFTER you're done and open it in another viewer, to realize that the image is all f*cked up. 🙄