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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Wouldn't printing the PDF to a new PDF inherently strip the metadata put there by the publisher?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (7 children)

it’s possible using steganographic techniques to embed digital watermarks which would not be stripped by simply printing to pdf.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Got it. Print to a low quality JPG, the use AI upscaling to restore the text and graphs.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

You should spread that idea around more, it's pretty ingenious. I'd add first converting to B&W if possible.

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