It’s not about anyone being a scalie, it’s a cross between “I’m supposed to be reading the text here, take this seriously” and “modernity means we don’t use powdered wigs anymore”
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tal@lemmy.today 11 months ago
“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.
…courtlistener.com/…/gov.uscourts.miwd.114988.1.0…
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
jacob.perrone@yahoo.com
It’s like having a screensaver on an LCD monitor.
And pdftotext, in poppler-utils, looks like it makes a pretty decent txt file of it too.
SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Glitchvid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I gotta admit this got a chuckle out of me, I’d allow it.
Bezier@suppo.fi 11 months ago
It’s like having a screensaver on an LCD monitor.
But screensavers are fun!
Incogni@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think they meant this like “This court is not a cartoon, so keep your cartoon character out of it” - cartoon as in the medium, not the character.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fine, I’ll wear my fursuit for the trial instead then