From the office of "What can't Linux run on?" comes a story about a high school student on a mission to prove that an interactive PDF can run all sorts of things. Essentially, the apps (and now the ...

PostScript started out as a programming language for printers. While PostScript printers are still a thing, there are many other ways to send data to a printer. But PostScript also spawned the ...

This Linux distro runs in a JavaScript-compiled RISC-V emulator within a PDF. This PDF file format supports Javascript ...

What's next, Crysis-in-a-CSV? First came Tetris, then Doom – and now a bare-bones Linux instance that boots inside a PDF.… Yes, the humble PDF – thanks to its ability to run limited JavaScript – has ...

On Windows and Mac machines, it’s not too troublesome to add text or drawings (such as signatures) to PDF files, but [Mansour Behabadi] found that on Linux machines, there didn’t seem to be a ...

There are a number of ways to extract a range of pages from a PDF file: there are PDF related toolkits for doing it, or you can use Ghostscript directly. For example, to extract pages 22-36 from a 100 ...

PDFs have become quite a staple in our digital lives, and it's likely that you use them more often than you realize. Perhaps you're a student doing research for multiple school projects, or possibly ...

Ghostscript, an open-source interpreter for PostScript language and PDF files widely used in Linux, has been found vulnerable to a critical-severity remote code execution flaw. The flaw is tracked as ...

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