On 3 October 2014 16:23, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> wrote:

Instead, he insists to distribute them in an opaque
format that can only be interpreted by a small handful of very complex
programs with a large attack surface.

​Oh, interesting point.  Maybe we should define PDF as an abstract semantics that we can convert into a wide range of equivalent document layout languages?  If the attacker can't tell exactly what xsl-fo or dsssl the tool will output, or what software you're using to render the result, it will magically make it more difficult to attack!​

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William Leslie

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