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Comment Not just school (Score 1) 143

This is being used in bar exams. In these, you are not dealing with a professor and 70 students, but you are dealing with 5000 examinees and the board of bar examiners.

Do you think that they are going to watch 4 hours of video? Will they actually allow you to finish the exam or shut it down when the AI figures out that you are cheating?

Comment Web Pages Use Same Imaging Model (Score 1) 227

Web pages use SVG to render vector graphics. It uses the exact same imaging model as PDF and is implemented in all modern browsers. The web in general has taken a lot of lessons from Adobe because Warnock and Geshke, in the PostScript Red Book, got so much right about how to build an image model that many GUI developers are still learning today. If you start with a PDF, it should be possible to machine-translate it to SVG and present it as a web page.

PDF exists because it is trivial to generate it from the document renderer meant for printing. Although I have once in a while run into an improperly scaled PDF meant to be printed 8-up, I'm just not

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