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The glowing blue progress bar on Elias’s monitor stalled at 99%. Outside his cramped London flat, the rain hammered against the glass, a rhythmic percussion to his mounting frustration. Elias was a freelance graphic designer on a deadline that had expired three hours ago. His client wanted a 200-page catalog moved from a dead PDF format back into Adobe InDesign, and his old conversion tool had just bricked. He looked at the price tag for

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