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cyphar / paperback

Paper backup generator suitable for long-term storage.
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pdf: allow "re-printing" a new PDF from old data #11

Closed cyphar closed 2 years ago

cyphar commented 2 years ago

Given a single document it would be nice to be able to generate a new PDF from the data. This would solve two problems:

  1. Minor stylistic changes in the PDF that a user would like to have (such as improving the descriptions of sections). This would be at least somewhat useful for early adopters of paperback that want to be able to update some of the documents (if they choose) without needing to form a quorum and create a new backup needlessly.
  2. To salvage a document which has degraded significantly but is still readable -- this would allow you to potentially avoid needing to come to a quorum to issue new shards if the shard holder makes use of this feature when they notice the shard is getting a bit long in the tooth.

This doesn't require any fancy cryptography since it's just a repackaging of the existing data in the document.

cyphar commented 2 years ago

Completed in 7b7a3b6271e5bdf04938c66914f4a53ad593fcc8.