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Old 06-26-2016, 09:34 AM   #17
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It looks like secret code. Anyhow it seems you have the wrong input PDF file so the missing characters make no sense. The missing characters after converting 'The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy' to 1-bit PDF on Kindle will eventualy produce The Ultimate Question.
And we all know the answer is '42'.

Yes, the artifacts are (seemingly) missing letters, not missing pixels nor random missing blocks or pixels -- but specifically blocks of pixels that specifically bound complete single letters, as if by design. No software bug I know of can align to letter boundaries like that without an intelligent creator. This is too exacting to be a random bug, IMHO. Either a hoax, or a joke by a programmer from amazon (or here), or a kindle computer virus. Nothing else makes sense unless I am overlooking something here.

If it was a text document rather than just images containing text, then I could see other potential causes. But this specific condition remains a mystery to me.

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