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openfirmware
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Thinking Forth
OpenFirmware has some code for paging! ;)
purpose: Set up page tables and turn on paging
https://github.com/openbios/openfirmware/blob/master/cpu/x86...
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Hypertext '87 (1987) [pdf]
NeWS didn't use FORTH. But HyperTIES used both FORTH and NeWS because there were a lot of things that FORTH could do that NeWS couldn't, like link and call C code. The FORTH I used was Mitch Bradley's "Sun Forth", which evolved into OpenFirmware, and which was once defined by an IEEE standard, "IEEE 1275-1994", but it was withdrawn because the standard was not reaffirmed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware
>Open Firmware is described by IEEE standard IEEE 1275-1994, which was not reaffirmed by the Open Firmware Working Group (OFWG) since 1998 and has therefore been officially withdrawn by IEEE.
It's still alive and maintained and used for many things. Here's the source code, called OpenBIOS:
https://github.com/openbios
https://github.com/openbios/openfirmware
https://openfirmware.info
https://openfirmware.info/Welcome_to_OpenBIOS
- What to Learn
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Moving Forth (1993)
Some Forth systems even have a "metacompiler" that lets one FORTH system compile another FORTH system for the same or different CPU, word size, byte order, threading model, etc, from the same source code!
OpenFirmware (the FORTH burnt into boot roms of SPARC, PowerPC, OLPC, and other systems) is a great example:
openfirmware/forth/kernel/metacompile.fth
https://github.com/openbios/openfirmware/blob/d5cc657ce81c0f...
- PostScript Language Reference [pdf]
qpdf
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🔍Underrated Open Source Projects You Should Know About đź§
QPDF is a CLI tool that performs content-preserving transformations on PDF files. We have another tool for managing files!
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Insecure Features in PDFs
Given how well Preview.app and Safari work for viewing >99% of PDFs I actually encounter in the wild, this article makes Apple's engineering decisions look good.
It also confirms many suspicions I've had over the years that have led me to, e.g., running all PDFs from questionable sources through VirusTotal before viewing on platforms where I wouldn't normally run antivirus software.
The original article also confirms my suspicions that this step is inadequate:
Because the Launch action can be considered as a danger- ous feature, we conducted a large-scale evaluation of 294,586 PDF documents downloaded from the Internet, in order to research if there are any legitimate use cases at all. Of those documents, only 532 files (0.18%) contained a Launch action. While none of the files was classified as malicious according to the VirusTotal database, we conclude that the Launch action is rarely used in the wild and its support should be removed by PDF implementations as well as the standard.
Incidentally, the Launch action is still present in the most recent version of the PDF standard[1], with only OS-specific launch parameters deprecated (which include passing arguments to the launched executable, so eliminating the deprecated feature is still a significant security gain).
Finally, I'm both personally and professionally curious about how the non-DoS examples in this articles may apply to non-viewer PDF tools and libraries like qpdf[2] and Ghostscript's original and recently reimplemented PDF interpreters[3].
[1] https://pdfa.org/resource/iso-32000-pdf/
(registration required, but at least the base standard is available at no cost; sadly, important incorporated standards like ISO 21757-1:2020 [ECMAScript for PDF] are not)
[2] https://qpdf.sourceforge.io
[3] https://ghostscript.com/blog/pdfi.html
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Jim Keller criticizes Nvidia CUDA, x86 – 'CUDA's a swamp, not a moat, like x86'
I know you're talking about GUI editing, but I've found libqpdf[1] incredibly useful for making programmatic PDF edits with minimal (typically no) structural disturbance.
[1] https://qpdf.sourceforge.io
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How to remove all metadata & identifiers when uploading Elsevier articles to libgen?
Solved this. So the string which we were concerned about depends on the time, which is why it changes everytime a new document is generated with the same source PDF. it is a meaningless string really. from the documentation, it gives this explanatin. To be sure, i raised an issue with the guys at QPDF and they were quick to answer the question too. The explanation theyve given is even more clearer.
- I wanna design UI/Ux for open source!
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qpdf.el: A transient Emacs wrapper for qpdf
Hi, this is my first Emacs package! It provides a transient wrapper for the qpdf command-line tool aimed especially at users of pdf-tools or at least DocView. With it one can, for example, remove/reorder/split/rotate pages of a pdf file, merge pdf files, remove annotations, and apply a range of transformations to a pdf file. See the qpdf documentation.
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The New Ghostscript PDF Interpreter
There are some here, as test files in the qpdf library: https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/tree/main/qpdf/qtest/qpdf
(I wrote a low-level PDF parser and ran it over the PDF files that happened to be present on my laptop—just regular ones—and ran into some files that (some) PDF viewers open but even qpdf doesn't. I say "even" because qpdf is really good IMO.)
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Ask HN: Why is the PDF format so inaccessible?
If you're comfortable handling the (typo)graphical aspects of the PDF yourself and have the ability to consume a C++ library, I've had good experiences using the Apache-licensed qpdf[1] library to handle the low-level structural aspects of the PDF standard. It's particularly convenient when your application requires structure-preserving integration of existing PDF content.
Simple example applications, each completed in 2–3 days, both in C#, using C++/CLI to integrate libqpdf:
1. Overlaying fixed-format text on pre-existing blank PDF form pages, ensuring the content of each distinct form page is embedded exactly once, and that all necessary assets (fonts, images, etc.) from the blank form PDF pages are included in the output PDF.
2. Losslessly combining a sequence of PDF, TIFF, and JPEG images into a single PDF with bookmarks pointing to the first page of each source file and existing image compression maintained where possible. In this application, only the source TIFFs were anything other than arbitrary (i.e., the TIFFs were more-or-less baseline images coming from a small number of scanning systems, but the JPEGs and PDFs came from all sorts of different applications).
[1] https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf
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unlocking pdfs WITH password
Use qpdf https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf
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Quick macOS terminal command to batch remove user password from PDF
I was looking for a way on macOS to batch remove the user password from a bunch of PDF files that had the same password. I found the easiest way was to use qpdf with the following command:
What are some alternatives?
forth - Porting Richard Jones' FORTH to ARM
pdfcpu - A PDF processor written in Go.
sbcl - Mirror of Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL)'s official repository
pikepdf - A Python library for reading and writing PDF, powered by QPDF
maths132-notes - Notes I wrote for Lee White's Maths 132 Differential Equations course, University of Melbourne, 1995-96
pdf-lib - Create and modify PDF documents in any JavaScript environment
OpenPDF - OpenPDF is a free Java library for creating and editing PDF files, with a LGPL and MPL open source license. OpenPDF is based on a fork of iText. We welcome contributions from other developers. Please feel free to submit pull-requests and bugreports to this GitHub repository.
TCPDF - Official clone of PHP library to generate PDF documents and barcodes
markdown-preview-enhanced - One of the 'BEST' markdown preview extensions for Atom editor!
puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome
PyPDF4 - A utility to read and write PDFs with Python
PDFKit - A JavaScript PDF generation library for Node and the browser