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I thought the days of “opening a pdf freezes IE for several seconds” were long past. What makes this painful for you?
by malf 3y ago
I thought the days of “opening a pdf freezes IE for several seconds” were long past. What makes this painful for you?
- TheRealPomax 3y agoWho said anything about painful? HN posts that are direct downloads for pdf files are universally marked with [pdf]. Either because the poster remembered to do so, or because the title gets edited after the fact. This is not an article, it's a download, and should be marked as such.
- yencabulator 3y agoIt's only a download if your browser chooses not to display it. On Chrome, it's just another tab among tabs; you can choose to save to a file if you want.
- withinboredom 3y agoWhether or not to open on a mobile device? I usually don't open PDFs on a mobile because it is a pain to read.
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- detrites 3y agoPDF's also present privacy and security risks (the question's old but answers been updated): https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/72037/what-are-the-security-risks-associated-with-pdf-files https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/72037/what-are-...
- quickthrower2 3y agoMany HTMLs have the same issue
- withinboredom 3y ago“Reading mode” usually solves this with HTML