{"id":7827,"date":"2012-08-24T22:34:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T02:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=7827"},"modified":"2012-08-24T22:34:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T02:34:21","slug":"times-new-rot13-and-times-new-caesar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/24\/times-new-rot13-and-times-new-caesar\/","title":{"rendered":"Times New ROT13 (and Times New Caesar)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If you’re wondering why the lower line has a load of squigglies when it appears identical to the one above, open the linked PDF and copy some of the text. Looks a bit squiffy, no?<\/p>\n

I’m messing with your head here by splitting the encoding of the characters from the appearance of the glyphs, and using the old rot13<\/a> cypher to do it. This will really mess up the new MS Office “Edit PDF as text” schtick. Please note I’m doing this for lulz, not to break accessibility; that would be as the kids today say, a dick move<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Here’s the font: TimesNewROT13<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since Times is both New and Roman, I thought I’d add some old roman by making a Caesar Cypher<\/a> version. I don’t think I’ve done this quite right, but it works if you use the following shell command as an encoder:<\/p>\n

tr '[A-C][D-Z][a-c][d-z]' '[D-Z][A-C][d-z][a-c]'<\/pre>\n
Here it is: TimesNewCaesar<\/a>. I’ll fix it soon enough.<\/p>\n
(Note that ROT13 fonts have been done before<\/a> …)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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