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Re: Show HN: Tetris in a PDF

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danudey wrote: post #56
alana314 wrote: post #15

Wow, I had no idea PDFs could be this dynamic. Doesn't work in Mac OS preview or quicklook but works great in chrome.

The Canadian passport application PDF has Javascript that updates a QR code in the top-right corner of the first page whenever you change or fill in a field. https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/ircc/migration/ircc/englis... Seems like a pretty genius way of avoiding transcription errors. When I dropped my passport application off yesterday the passport officer marked up a few things on the PDF and then scanned it in, s…

Yes, elsewhere in this thread people were complaining about how Canadian government PDFs only work in Acrobat Reader on Windows and what a PITA that is.

Re: Show HN: Tetris in a PDF

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freedomben wrote: post #37

You 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…

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Re: Show HN: Tetris in a PDF

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Fernicia wrote: post #9

Back 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.

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Re: Show HN: Tetris in a PDF

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pbhjpbhj wrote: post #69
Fernicia wrote: post #9

Back 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?

Maybe, but PDF can contain Flash Applets, too.

However, modern version of Acrobat Reader do not support that anymore. https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/flash-format-support-in-p...:

“Flash Player end-of-life (EOL) impacts playback and authoring of rich media having Flash content (.flv and .swf) in PDFs:

• Playback of Flash media (.flv and .swf) content in existing PDFs will not be supported.”

Re: Show HN: Tetris in a PDF

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Post by debo_ »

freedomben wrote: post #37

You 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 feel stupid for not getting the joke. It would have been nice if you explained it in the ... postscript.

(Yes this is a joke)

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