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		bkuehl on May 5, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Why is the PDF format so inaccessible? We recently had a ticket from a user where an uploaded PDF wouldn't load in browser (Chrome). Turns out the PDF had embedded Flash content. I was blown away that in 2022 some application somewhere was still embedding Flash in their PDFs.

aaaaaaaaata on May 5, 2022 [–]

I'd count yourself lucky whatever that spooky shit was couldn't execute!

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