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Ok so I want to download this embedded PDF/document in order to physically print it. The website allows me to view it as much as I want, but is asking me to fork over 25 + tax USD so i can download the document.

Obviously, i don't want to do that, so I try to download the embedded document via inspect element. But, the weird thing is it not actually loading a pdf, but like really small pictures of each page:

So, my question is basically how can I download this document in order to print it?

PdF link: https://www.sbcaplanroom.com/jobs/2477/plans/goleta-sanitary-district-biosolids-and-energy-phase-1-project/?preview=200647

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[-] jlow@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Just as a tiny nitpick: PDFs can be just a collection of images. If there's text I would hope that they're embedded as text or vectors, which is what would usually happen if you export a document from a program (that isn't completely bs). So texts / vector graphics etc should not be images usually (unless you scan a document as a PDF - which I hate with a passion but can see that people prefer a single PDF over a collection of image files). Even then you could OCR the imges / PDF to make it searchable etc. Anyway in this case it seems to be a collection of images indeed ^__^

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