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You can embed flash in PDF?!?
by simondotau 5y ago
You can embed flash in PDF?!?
- d4mi3n 5y agoIn the good old days you could embed executable code in a PDF. Interactive flash games. Java applets. Sanity has prevailed and a lot of that just doesn’t work anymore, but IIRC Adobe wanted PDF to be “the” file interchange format.
- Finnucane 5y agoAnd those weren’t even things when the PDF was first created.
- perardi 5y agoYeah, I had forgotten that when I was looking through the version history. I remembered most of those features, but when I saw Flash, I had to sit and slowly blink for a minute. (A lot of those “interactive” features are exposed in Adobe InDesign, hence my passing, regrettable familiarity.)
- bkuehl 5y agoWe recently had a ticket from a user where an uploaded PDF wouldn't load in browser (Chrome). Turns out the PDF had embedded Flash content. I was blown away that in 2022 some application somewhere was still embedding Flash in their PDFs.
- aaaaaaaaata 5y agoI'd count yourself lucky whatever that spooky shit was couldn't execute!
- airbreather 5y agoYu can embed all multimedia types, plus internally attach files like xls, or whatever you want. This part of the reason it's such a security nightmare.