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I agree. FF is already my favorite PDF viewer by far - it's got more features than chrome and I've never felt a native PDF viewer is better in any way. But I ne
by dahfizz 6y ago
I agree. FF is already my favorite PDF viewer by far - it's got more features than chrome and I've never felt a native PDF viewer is better in any way. But I never need complicated form filling like you mention, I just need a PDF viewer.
- bobcostas55 6y agoIt can't even copy paste normal text properly (the bug has been there for 8 years now: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=810636 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=810636). Line breaks are ignored and words are just smushed together instead. Ever since I switched to FF it has been my biggest annoyance, on Chrome this stuff just works. The best alternative on windows is PDF-XChange, fairly obscure but extremely feature-rich.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoThis is a hard problem. Unflowing text requires determining where the next line is and possibly removing optional hyphenation. PDF only deals with one line spans of text at best. Throw in super and subscripts or inline graphics and it becomes nontrivial.
- int_19h 6y agoIt's not trivial, but as the bug report points out, Adobe Reader can handle it.
- foofoo55 6y agoAnother vote for PDF-XChange. It's very good at selecting text and annotating a PDF. Plus it has excellent printing features.