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4am@lemm.ee 5 months agoThose printer instructions are called Postscript and they’re the basis of PDF.
You are thinking that the printing process will rasterize the PDF and then essentially OCR/vector map it back. It’s (usually) not that complicated.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Unless of course you print everything and then scan it again, like this guy probably does.