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I don’t know if this is true, but I’ve been told that the pdf spec at one point did/does contain some MS DOS emulation. I’m seriously close to banning acrobat
by SlowRobotAhead 8y ago
I don’t know if this is true, but I’ve been told that the pdf spec at one point did/does contain some MS DOS emulation.
I’m seriously close to banning acrobat the program for my employees, just haven’t found a rock solid alternative that I can trust to not implement the same dumb parts of the spec.
- sebazzz 8y agoPretty sure that pdf.js from Firefox is safe. At least it runs as sandboxed javascript in the browser. I believe a standalone client may exist as well.
- AnaniasAnanas 8y agoMy issue with pdf.js is that it is really bad at copying. every time that I try to copy something from it every word (and sometimes different letters from a word) end up in a different line. I also had issues with rendering, in some (rare) cases I had it show squares instead of the actual content. Not to mention that it is actually horrifyingly slow compared to most of the viewers that I tried.
- avian 8y agopdf.js had its share of security vulnerabilities in the past. e.g. https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/08/06/firefox-exploit-found-in-the-wild/ https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/08/06/firefox-exploit...
- occamrazor 8y agoI think that chrome uses (used?) poppler, and is quite good for displaying pdfs.
- hannob 8y agono, chrome uses its own engine called pdfium.