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by RodgerTheGreat 1378 days ago
I have some bad news for you about PDF: https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/library/jsa...

See also: https://rawgit.com/osnr/horrifying-pdf-experiments/master/br...

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Even better, every font renderer does! A couple of the PDF-based jailbreaks for iOS were actually bugs in the virtual machine used by font renderer to allow fonts to do programmatic hinting, and the PDF only really existed as a container to deploy the font and force it to deterministically render exactly what was required.
I intuitively expected some trash like that from Adobe which is why I wrote "every PDF viewer" and not "Acrobat Reader".
His "breakout" demo works in Chrome's viewer as well (and obviously FoxIt).