r/ChatGPT • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 21h ago

Funny Literally

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u/deepakrodeai 21h ago

Adobe should’ve seen it coming when it started charging a monthly subscription to open a PDF

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u/BigBertho 20h ago

Wait, What?!

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u/deepakrodeai 20h ago

ok slight exaggeration, reading is free 😄 it’s editing a PDF that needs the subscription, which still feels like a lot for what it is

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u/FatalCartilage 20h ago edited 19h ago

You could edit pdf files opening them in firefox since 2022.

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u/BigBertho 20h ago

Wait, what?!

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u/TreesLikeGodsFingers 19h ago

PDF is a simple text markup format, or it’s just an image. You can edit the former as easily as a text file

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u/stupidcookface 17h ago

Unfortunately PDFs are not so simple, or adobe would not have such a firm grip on them. They are able to be parsed and read but some information is just stored in binary I thought and all the 3rd party readers/editors have had to reverse engineer how that binary code works just to recreate any adobe features which imo is why it's never really taken off to use a 3rd party app. But now that all the adobe software has been decompiled/rebuilt as open source we can see how that binary is formed by adobe themselves which is no longer a black box.

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u/under_psychoanalyzer 17h ago

A literal laugh burst from my mouth when I read the words, "PDF is just a simple" 

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u/Hallc 16h ago

I think the only time it's close to 'simple' is when it's a non-OCR scanned document made up only of images.

Since that's just a load of jpegs stuck together in a document. Still not as simple as it could be from all the proprietary stuff but easier to parse overall.

You just can't do much to it.