PDF internals
2 posts tagged PDF internals.
Why PDF Text Extraction Returns Garbled or Empty Text
Extraction problems look like bugs in the converter. Almost always they are accurate readings of what the PDF actually contains — which is why knowing the cause tells you the fix.
Markdown to PDF: Why the Simple Conversion Breaks (and How to Get It Right)
Markdown to PDF is sold as a solved problem. Feed the same .md file to pandoc, a VS Code extension and GitHub's print view and you get three visibly different documents, because each uses a different rendering engine, and only one of them is the engine that produced the preview you checked.