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I'm surprised that iMessage doesn't restrict content to a subset of predefined, preapproved, battle hardened types and variants. Any other content has to be converted before transport. Otherwise that content is just treated as payload (attachment).

Why use a library to support every format ever made? To inline image previews? Just show a thumbnail.

Why do anything with PDF? Just show a thumbnail.

I'm pretty sure iMessage already down samples the puppy pictures I send to my mom, and doing some kind of conversion to tunnel across MMS for non iMessage recipients (eg Android phones).




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