• NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 months ago

    I feel like this will cause quality degradation, like repeatedly re-compressing a jpeg. Relevant xkcd

    Edit: though obviously for most use cases it shouldn’t matter

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      6 months ago

      I don’t understand the “that’s no how PDFs work” criticism.

      Removing data from the original file is the whole point of the exercise! Of course unique tokens can be hidden in plain sight in images, letter spacing, etc. If we want to make sure to remove that we need to degrade the quality of the PDF so that this information is lost in said lossy conversion.