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!!Con 2020 - Playing Breakout… inside a PDF!! by Omar Rizwan
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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.
Cited as the fun, surprising example of how much a PDF can do, and the talk behind the Horrifying PDF Experiments repo.
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