Re: What other tasks do you do that you need free PDF editing tools to do?
Anthk GM <[email protected]>
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On 2025-08-31, JJ <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 31 Aug 2025 08:51:43 -0300, Shadow wrote: >> On Sun, 31 Aug 2025 06:40:17 -0000 (UTC), Andrew Smallshaw >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>On 2025-08-28, Marion <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> What other tasks do you do that you need free PDF editing tools to do? >>> >>>Play Doom. >>> >>>https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/doom_delivered_in_a_pdf/ >> >> Now that is scary. Probably deliberately so. Never use a PDF >> viewer that allows javascript.... >> []'s > > It's disturbing. Only a wacko would have come up with such misusing idea. > It's a slippery slope which, with a little nudge, can easily fall into the > dark side and do real damage. His older "brother" format from the same company, PostScript, already was turing complete; you could do anything from GhostScript, even play ZMachine text adventure games as someone built an interpreter made in PostScript. You can play Zork I-III (and more games like Tristam Island, or Calypso.z3) with 'zmachine.ps'. gs zmachine.ps -- your_game.z3 Also, chess: https://seriot.ch/software/pschess.html Usage: gs -DNOSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="%d.pdf" pschess_compact.ps