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The /Kids are alright

October 20, 2025

Truly wild to me that the PDF specification’s field for child ele­ments is called /Kids! A thou­sand years of pro­gram­matic “parent” nodes with pro­gram­matic “child” nodes, and I’ve never, until now, heard any called “kids”. Delightful.

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