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0 pointstonyedgecombe5y ago0 comments

The trouble is the PDF specification is vague and ambiguous in a number of areas. This has resulted in a lot of ill formed documents. If you are going to write a PDF reader then you are going to have to accept those documents and not corrupt them.

Even if ABBY does have a bug and fixes it then people will still have a bunch of older documents they will want to read.

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zepto5y ago

This is mostly accurate, however it is an idealization to suggest that you can accept and not corrupt all of the ill-formed documents.

This is in principle impossible.

If it turns out that there is a widespread problem with many kinds of document that no longer work properly, I’ll be more inclined to say Apple is at fault.

But as it stands, it just seems like ABBY has been producing bad PDFs.

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