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This HOWTO discusses Python’s support for the Unicode specification for representing textual data, and explains various problems that people commonly encounter when trying to work with Unicode.

Everything about the structure of a PDF is covered in the PDF Specification, although sometimes the PDF spec might be a bit vague, or the actual behavior, even in Adobe’s products, might differ slightly in the actual implementation. So when parsing a PDF, you’ll need to adjust for some edge cases and parse some things loosely, so as to not strictly reject everything that varies from the spec.

Since PSPDFKit already handles parsing and interpreting PDF files, even in the weirdest of edge cases, you don’t have to manually handle PDFs. But if you’re still interested in how a PDF looks under the hood and how the visual page representations are created, (be my guest and) read on.

The conclusion I draw from this is that you can only really use Git if you understand how Git works. Merely memorizing which commands you should run at what times will work in the short run, but it’s only a matter of time before you get stuck or, worse, break something.

Half of the existing resources on Git, unfortunately, take just that approach: they walk you through which commands to run when, and expect that you should do fine if you just mimic those commands. The other half does go through all the concepts, but from what I have seen, they explain Git in a manner that assumes you already understand how Git works.

This tutorial, then, will take a conceptual approach to Git. My goal will be, first and foremost, to explain the Git universe and its objectives, and secondarily to illustrate how to use Git commands to manipulate that universe.