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Don’t watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

"Each page of plaintiff’s complaint appears on an e-filing which is dominated by a large multi-colored cartoon dragon dressed in a suit," he wrote on April 28 (PDF). "Use of this dragon cartoon logo is not only distracting, it is juvenile and impertinent. The Court is not a cartoon."

The Court is not a cartoon.

They're portraying themselves as a scalie, not you.

That being said, why is anyone involved here watermarking PDF with anything? I mean, normally the purpose of a watermark is to link content with the creator. But I seriously doubt that the text and the background image have been merged into some kind of raster image.

investigates

Yeah, they link to the original dragonized PDF.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.miwd.114988/gov.uscourts.miwd.114988.1.0.pdf

It's just text on top of the image. You can copy-paste the text:

DRAGON LAWYERS PC
Jacob A. Perrone (P71915)
Attorneys for Plaintiff
325 East Grand River Ave., Suite 250
East Lansing, MI 48823
Phone: (844) JAKELAW
[email protected]

It's like having a screensaver on an LCD monitor.

And pdftotext, in poppler-utils, looks like it makes a pretty decent de-watermarked text file of it too.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

It's like having a screensaver on an LCD monitor.

But screensavers are fun!

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