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!!Con 2020 - Playing Breakout… inside a PDF!! by Omar Rizwan

!!Con · 4.2K views · 2020-05-28 · 8:16

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Omar Rizwan's short !!Con talk about writing a Breakout game in JavaScript that runs inside a PDF. It explores the surprisingly large PDF specification, including its scripting support.

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Cited as the fun, surprising example of how much a PDF can do, and the talk behind the Horrifying PDF Experiments repo.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2021–2024

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mdaniel · 2024-06 · Reference

the repo's < [LINK] > readme points to the talk given on this: [VIDEO] the 2021 submission of the repo got some lively commentary [LINK]

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jeroenhd · 2023-03 · Reference

Support will vary by viewer, but Chrome's built-in PDF viewer supports a subset of Javascript. It's enough to play Breakout inside a PDF: [VIDEO]

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vanderZwan · 2021-04 · Joke / meme

> PDF forms now support JavaScript embedded in PDF files. Some PDF forms use JavaScript for validation and other interactive features. As far as I can tell I still can't play breakout in a PDF in Firefox though (and I think that's for the better) [0] [LINK] [1] [VIDEO]

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