You could open and read it. A PDF is a text file, after all, with optional compression--but you can decompress the sections and read/edit them just fine in your favorite text editor. Extract any image streams to a separate file and view.
Source: I am far too intimately acquainted with the PDF specs and writing PDFs by hand and fixing bugs in the PDF output of various software.
What YEAR is this? (Score:2)
Holy crap, MP3 and BMP? Did I wake up in 1995?
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What was curious to me is that they used a PDF and not just an HTML page to host the links... I suspect there's something hidden in that PDF as well
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You could open and read it. A PDF is a text file, after all, with optional compression--but you can decompress the sections and read/edit them just fine in your favorite text editor. Extract any image streams to a separate file and view.
Source: I am far too intimately acquainted with the PDF specs and writing PDFs by hand and fixing bugs in the PDF output of various software.
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Fun fact: SVG is the XML implementation of PDF. (Source: Somebody who was involved in its creation, interviewed on <Computerphile> on YouTube.)
Re:What YEAR is this? (Score:2)
That makes total sense in retrospect, since they share that drawing command scheme.