“What changes to the workflow cause halos, x-ray effect, and identical pixel elements? Why were they not showing up before and show up now?”
Was anyone looking for halos, x-ray effect, and identical pixel elements?
Are most PDFs given this type of scrutiny?
Take this new one from the Appalachian Trail Museum. If you were just looking for info from their website and opened it in your browser, you would not notice the differences. It’s only if you look very carefully and know what to look for and zoom-in to a ridiculous level that you can see that there are differences.
Yes, I believe NBC was looking closely for these things this whole time, and hadn’t found these phenomena on any of the ones he had looked at until now.