Given how much of a hot mess PDFs are in general, it seems like it would behoove the government to just develop a new, actually safe format to standardize around for government releases and make it open source.

Unlike every other PDF format that has been attempted, the federal government doesn't have to worry about adoption.

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Spooky23 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You’re thinking about this as a nerd.

It’s not a tools problem, it’s a problem of malicious compliance and contempt for the law.

	▲	legitster an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Even the previous justice departments struggled with PDFs. The way they handled it was scrubbing all possible metadata and uploading it as images. For example, when the Mueller reports were released with redactions, they had no searchable text or meta data because they were worried about this exact kind of data leaks. However, vast troves of unsearchable text is not a huge win for transparency. PDFs are just a garbage format and even good administrations struggle.

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derwiki 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

JPEG?

	▲	legitster 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's not really comparable - It needs to be editable and searchable.
	▲	recursive 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Lossy

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