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How does this help me on Windows?

And a good format wouldn't require any ToUnicode maps for simple text in the first place

And poorly supporting a lot without common implementations isn't a defence against the charge of high complexity and bad design, but a reinforcement thereof

(also, no, the first document doesn't work on iOS, I select title and two paragraphs, copy, paste, and I get a single line instead of 3, so a different manifestation of the same common fail of PDFs)




“Here’s a nickel kid, get yourself a better OS”?

Still, the fact that some PDF processors can make this work shows that the format isn’t broken “by design”.




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