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Not all PDFs are standards compliant, plenty are filled with acrobat only JS, embedded flash and form filling crap.
by throwaway2048 8y ago
Not all PDFs are standards compliant, plenty are filled with acrobat only JS, embedded flash and form filling crap.
- semi-extrinsic 8y agoAs e.g. the fine men and women of Int. J. POC||GTFO have demonstrated, it's possible to embed all sorts of weird and wonderful things in a PDF. I think a format where it's possible to include as much as possible is better. Just look at HTML. Would you rather have it be impossible to extend beyond text, images and stylesheets?
- na85 8y agoI would. The modern web is a rich-get-richer hellscape of surveillance and advertising.
- jimjimjim 8y agohtml can include acrobat only JS and embedded flash and form filling crap.
- icxa 8y agoForm filling is part of the standard, specifically, the process of applying an XFDF to a PDF, which even allows you to do things like present a remote web form and then inject the data into the PDF.