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Re:Making a PDF that's larger than Germany by shp0ngle on Thursday February 01, 2024 @05:26AM (#39214476)
about pdf/a... until recently there was not even an easy way to figure out if pdf is really pdf/a; now there is (verapdf) and it's crazy complex piece of software

and maybe I'm wrong but the only way to convert arbitrary pdf to pdf/a with open source software is to convert it to postscript and back with ghostscript - which is affero licensed... with all the possible problems it entails. (there is old version that is just gpl, works on most pdfs but is 15 years old or such.)

i needed to deal with pdf/a in a previous job... was not fun.

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Re:Making a PDF that's larger than Germany by Elzair on Thursday February 01, 2024 @11:06AM (#39217413)
You could use the pdfium library as an alternative to Ghostscript.
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Re:Making a PDF that's larger than Germany by shp0ngle on Thursday February 01, 2024 @03:58PM (#39221385)
I don't think there is a way to do that with pdfium. I have tried to look at it and failed. Maybe I didn't look hard enough.
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Re:Making a PDF that's larger than Germany by account42 on Monday February 05, 2024 @07:45AM (#39260665)
> which is affero licensed... with all the possible problems it entails

And what problems are those? Besides making it harder to leech off the community without giving back of course.

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