Ask HN: Why is the PDF format so inaccessible?
32 by shawnfrostx | 32 comments on Hacker News.
I am working on some typographical software that is supposed to generate PDFs at the end. It seems like there is no accessible information on how to do this. The PDF ISO specification is behind a paywall and has a dead link to a 2008 spec. There are open source converters like pandoc, but nothing that actually writes to PDF that I can find. Is there any resource that goes over the process of PDF generation?
32 by shawnfrostx | 32 comments on Hacker News.
I am working on some typographical software that is supposed to generate PDFs at the end. It seems like there is no accessible information on how to do this. The PDF ISO specification is behind a paywall and has a dead link to a 2008 spec. There are open source converters like pandoc, but nothing that actually writes to PDF that I can find. Is there any resource that goes over the process of PDF generation?
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