Beyond this, however, lies a sizable ecosystem of less-visible open-source utilities, libraries, and SDKs which are used inside enterprises as part of PDF workflows and automated batch processing. Finding and updating these components, often buried deep inside third-party libraries, promises to be time consuming.
If enterprises delay updating, then they risk encountering PDFs created using newer software supporting Brotli that will no longer open on their older, non-updated programs. IT teams will most likely come face to face with this when users contact them to report that they can’t open a file.
Building Brotli support
To kick off adoption, developers need encouragement, said Guust Ysebie, a software engineer with document processing developer Apryse. “Somebody has to jump first and make some noise so other products jump on the bandwagon,” he said.
