I read on a wall in a dominos “restaurant” that they were the first to have online orders in 1999.

I definitely remember ordering pizza online years earlier, probably 1995 or 1996 in Karlsruhe, Germany. Fun fact: the server used a fax modem to actually place the order. But the user interface was via browser.

Indeed. At least, the CPS should have a talk with that woman.

I am not sure this is sarcastic. I would not be surprised if this was a real product, used to abuse a child in the US. Americans are that kind of crazy.

Time to head for greener pastures.

The idea probably came to him while golfing.

Bitch fight! Bikini mud wrestling!

Yes, this works with most stickers, but there are some tough bastards that even resist that.

Remember the ancient Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times”…

The compressing and renumbering seems to be more common with embedded Chinese fonts - Space-wise it makes a lot of sense. But yes, mark and copy text, paste it into word or writer, and you get gibberish. Can’t verify the search, though. And, of course, Google translate can’t do anything with it, either.

If you ever need to edit a PDF that way, just use Inkscape. It is way better than LO draw for that.

It is not a curse. It does exactly what it is intended to do: Create an archive of a document that is universally reproduceable.

It is a very well designed cul-de-sac for exactly this purpose. Using it for anything else is calling for trouble.

The problem lies in the PDFs themselves. In there are objects that represent lines of glyphs. If you are lucky. A conversion tool can guess which of those lines belong together and produce the text.

It cannot know any intentions behind it, though. Take a numbered list. The first line is two line objects: the number plus the . or the ), and the first line of text. The conversion tool can now guess. As the line blocks with the numbers are all left of the line blocks with text, this could be a numbered list. Or it could be a table with two columns. Nothing in the PDF is giving any hints.

And that is the easy part. This assumes that the document either uses default fonts, or keeps its embedded fonts untouched. If they use embedded fonts and a PDF optimizer that only embeds the used characters and renumbers them, any copy or conversion tool is bound to fail.

Same with protected PDFs where you simply cannot copy the text from the start.

And then there are PDFs that just consist of scanned pages. Here you would need an OCR software to get something readable out of them.

PDF is an archival, output format, the end of a process. Not something to work from.

Always preserve the original file. Keep it safe. If you change tools, make sure you have a conversion path into something editable. The PDF is for giving away, nothing else.

“Don’t start a fight with those who buy ink by the barrel.”

If FOX “News” turns on him, it might get interesting again.

Absolutely spot on. An illustrious club of similar-minded people. He perfectly fits in. I hope he feels at home…

Good morning, idiots. Did it never cross your little minds that a Trumpist candidate could be anything but pure shit on legs?

That is a big possibility, yes. They did the same here 80 years ago, and you know where that ended.

I’ve already read more than half of those.

I am lucky that I have learned to deal with the issues. One key issue is face blindness. I am completely unable to read faces, and it is extremely difficult to identify someone by just their faces.

Yes, I probably am in the top percent. But as it is an autism based ability, it also comes with it’s number of problems. You probably would not want to switch with me.

Reminds me of a friend weight watchers dilemma. She had a certain amount of points to spend on a day of food. It was just enough for one serving of her favourite Indian dish, but did not cover rice or naan…