So it's possible to port C compiler to PDF. Compiler is already done https://github.com/Mati365/ts-c-compiler . We can run DOS in PDF basically..
But will it also compile when printed out on paper?
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#62I was considering doing exactly that ahah. We should connect to share our hacks and pains. One could project would be to run wasm4 games because, yes, pdfium and pdf.js can run webassembly.
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#63Neat! Sadly doesn't work in Evince.
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#64You glorious bastard, what a cool project! This is already a contender for most hacker project of the year :-) (below is not serious) I would advise people against using this in production though because it's still missing some critical features. For example: 1. The Javascript stops working when printed to physical paper. The resulting paper just has a static image and the controls no longer work. 2. It doesn't work…
i recently discovered that the Canadian government depends on this for some fillable forms, because it shows a message at the top that says "JavaScript is disabled" and all the boxes show errors. i couldn't get it to work on Linux and had to dust off a Windows machine (and it still didn't work in firefox, it needed acrobat reader).
I have faced this exact problem with Canadian govt forms.
Evince doesn't support them. They are so specific about only adobe acrobat to fill out the forms.
I can open them in firefox but can't update them properly
The only option is to use my barely hanging on 10-yr old windows machine.
Let's hope that eventually they move on to a simpler web form.
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#65You glorious bastard, what a cool project! This is already a contender for most hacker project of the year :-) (below is not serious) I would advise people against using this in production though because it's still missing some critical features. For example: 1. The Javascript stops working when printed to physical paper. The resulting paper just has a static image and the controls no longer work. 2. It doesn't work…
> The Javascript stops working when printed to physical paper. The resulting paper just has a static image and the controls no longer work.
Science fiction tells us this is only temporary. Print away, those papers will turn into magic in just a few decades!
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#66So does that mean we can transpile PDFs to webassembly now?
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#68This is horrifying, PDFs should not be able to execute code.
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#69Back in school pdfs would circulate that had a bunch of flash games on them. I have no idea how or who made them, but they let us play dolphin olympics on lab computers with no internet connection.
I'm not sure, but I think it may have been that Adobe Viewer (or whatever it was) could run Flash?
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#70could you use checkboxes for display? I'm no sure if you can style them, but I think you can access them in JS, and that should result in having basic "pixels" which you can use to draw anything.
That sounds like something CodeBullet mighty have done!?