Iowa

Not read yet: Iowa

Where we would read it: The publisher is recorded and the right page is now recorded with it -- the URL here was /law/statutory/constitution/pca, which is Iowa's PROPOSED amendments, not its constitution. Iowa publishes the constitution itself as one PDF, 'Iowa Constitution - Codified', and this project reads PDFs now. This one is still refused, for a reason measured rather than assumed: NOT ONE of its three fonts maps any code to a space. The producer positioned every token instead of drawing the gaps between words, so 'STATE OF IOWA' arrives as the pieces ST / A / TE / OF / IOW / A, and where the words divide would have to be inferred from horizontal advances -- which on this file do not separate a word break from ordinary kerning. Inferring word breaks in a constitution is editing it. What would end it: reading the fonts' own /Widths arrays, or Iowa publishing the text in any format that carries its own spaces.