[poppler] PDF by hand [was Soft Masking bugs]

[Nathan Summers]

On 7/12/05, Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr at pdfsages.com> wrote:
> At 08:14 AM 7/12/2005, Brad Hards wrote:
> >OK, after staring at this for a while, I'm starting to believe that it really
> >is possible to read a PDF file by eye.
> 
>          Of course it is - just takes practice...I actually teach a
> 1/2 day class on how to do it.
> 
>          When you start writing them by hand (as I've been known to
> do), THEN I'll send you a "PDF Sages" shirt ;).

It's actually not too bad. (I've attached a "Hello, World" I did in vi
and hexer.)  The most annoying part to hand-hacking them is finding
the byte offsets.  Still, not something I'd do if there was a better
option.

So is this enough to qualify for a t-shirt?  :)

Rockwalrus
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