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Accessibility

2 articles

  • A barely visible hairline crack running through a wall

    The soft hyphen (U+00AD): the invisible character that breaks PDF text extraction

    It's invisible on screen. It prints correctly. But when text is extracted from the PDF - by an accessibility checker, a search engine, or a copy-paste - U+00AD surfaces as a garbage character between syllables. Here's what it is, where it comes from, and how to find it.

    Aug 4, 2026
  • A CMYK color print showing the four process inks

    PDF/X-4 from LuaLaTeX without Ghostscript: TrimBox, BleedBox, FOGRA39, and the pdfx package

    Producing a PDF/X-4 press-ready file from LuaLaTeX without touching Ghostscript: the pdfx package, TrimBox/BleedBox geometry in points, FOGRA39 OutputIntent, CMYK-only color discipline, and XMP metadata - everything a print shop will verify.

    Jul 7, 2026
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