this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2025
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Eh PDFs are just annoying to deal with. I could do this stuff the adobe acrobat when I had the paid version in school but I'm cheap and no longer have it. If I'm feeling desperate I'll find the ghostscript command that does it otherwise I just do something horrible (for example scanning to jpeg rather than PDF creating an HTML page with both images and printing that to PDF)

From writing a limited amount of code to generate PDFs from scratch the standard is just cursed. It was using 7 bit ASCII until fairly recently resulting in an eighth of the document being wasted space. Also when they switched to PDFs being an open standard the specs went from something freely available on adobe's web site to a challege of how to send 98 swiss francs to ISO to get access.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Is this some Acrobat functionality or something?

Off the top of my head, there's pdfjam, pdftk and imagemagick (don't forget the --dpi switch) who could probably do that, after reading the man pages. Or ghostscript' gs, if you want to go in-depth.

But generally, just rotate the source material you've got the pdf from. That's how it is intended.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Just think about gen alpha

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Never judge a fish by how well it climbs a tree.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I thought they would be wiz kids...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Me too. They were born with phones in their hands, right? Understanding technology should be like breathing to them! But it turns out they started using it after corporations had locked it down and simplified it, so they only know how to use apps, not how any of it actually works.

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