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gpvos on March 8, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dangerzone: Convert potentially dangerous PDFs, do...

The page description language part of PDF is based on Postscript, but explicitly simplified to be non-Turing-complete and safe (if implemented sanely). The later additions are the main culprit I think.

Piskvorrr on March 9, 2020 [–]

"if implemented sanely" - oh well. The original idea was nice.

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