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TSDgeos' blog
Personal blog · tsdgeos.blogspot.comprogrammingsystems
TSDgeos' blog is a personal blog at tsdgeos.blogspot.com about programming and systems. Since 2009, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Poppler finally has support for embedding fonts in PDF files”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link TSDgeos' blog, written by an Okular developer, for posts on Okular features: PDF signature verification support and the 2009 post on Okular and PDF DRM. Commenters cite them as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A blog about random things and sometimes about my work translating and developing KDE and anything
Most-linked posts?
- Poppler finally has support for embedding fonts in PDF files2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-29
What Hacker News says?
Okular has recently gotten improved support for verifying cryptographic signatures in PDF files. https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2022/03/okular-signature-suppor...
Comment linking /2022/03/okular-signature-support-now-works-on.html
on “PDF processing and analysis with open-source tools (2021)”Submitted The Qt Company is stopping Qt LTS releases. KDE is going to be fine as a story · 72 points
HN discussionSumatra did this too apparently. I do not know if they still do this as I haven't used it in a few years. Edit: So did Okular (the KDE reader) it seems https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2009/06/okular-pdf-and-drm.html Evince too https://superuser.com/questions/767617/disable-drm-in-evince but it is disabled by default now.
Comment linking /2009/06/okular-pdf-and-drm.html
on “Xpdf”Submitted Everything we release in KDE Gear is maintained as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Okular: Signing of unsigned PDF signature fields has landed as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Poppler finally has support for embedding fonts in PDF files as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted KDE Looking for Translators as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Okular: Signing of unsigned PDF signature fields has landed as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The KDE Qt5 Patch Collection has been rebased on top of Qt 5.15.9 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Come to Barcelona for Akademy 2022 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted TSDgeos' blog: Poppler finally has support for embedding fonts in PDF files as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted No one “works” on Poppler as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted No one “works” on Poppler as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Projects: be open or die as a story · 1 points
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