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I would really appreciate if someone could put a decent PDF reader, like Sumatra, into a PDF so I could have a portable and good PDF reader on locked down compu
by pletnes 2y ago
I would really appreciate if someone could put a decent PDF reader, like Sumatra, into a PDF so I could have a portable and good PDF reader on locked down computers.
- G_o_D 2y agoStill you will need reader to open that pdf
- johnisgood 2y agoThe PDF reader is embedded in Linux within a PDF that is within a PDF.
- albert_e 2y agoAre you going to open that PDF in Adobe Reader? If yes, Adobe has this friendly AI assistant forced into your face and overlapping floating toolbar on all sides of your document that you cannot get rid of to get a clean view of the document itself. So your dream of a simple lightweight clutterfree PDF reader will remain a dream, unfortunately.
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- yapyap 2y agoI mean if he’s searching for a good PDF reader I doubt he’ll be opening it in Adobe Reader
- taurknaut 2y agoI had assumed it went the way of Adobe Flash many years ago.
- otteromkram 2y agoWell, you know what they say about assume...
- andrelaszlo 2y agoAccidentally Turing complete?
- mschuster91 2y agoIt's still alive and kicking in anything government. Third party support for forms and other kinds of interactive stuff is ... lacking.
- achrono 2y agoTrue but also, what actually is the best alternative that's also free? Non-rhetorical question, because I am averse to paying for what feels like a universal/commons piece of tech.
- jagged-chisel 2y agoSomeone must put in the effort to make something. Should they not be compensated for their time?
- drivingmenuts 2y agoIf they inform and ask after the fact, compensation should be voluntary.
- mikepurvis 2y agoWhen I was a Mac user, I found the built in Preview adequate to my needs.
- worble 2y agoI'm not an advanced user of pdfs so I'm not sure if there's anything major missing from these, but either Okular or just the built-in browser ones works well enough for my basic needs of reading and the occasional form filling for the desktop, and on android I use muPdf.
- pletnes 2y agoMost browsers can open PDFs but can’t necessarily search large docs quickly.
- apricot 2y agoAI assistants are this generation's Clippy.
- layer8 2y agoThere is the classic Adobe Reader release [0] (non-DC) that is still receiving updates [1]. [0] https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/ReleaseNotesDC/classic/dcclassic2020base.html https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/ReleaseNo... [1] https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/ReleaseNotesDC/index.html#classic-track https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/ReleaseNo...
- HeckFeck 2y agoIt's even served by FTP. Nice!
- kristopolous 2y agoit's wild how shitty and hostile adobe's pdf reader is as a product. If I was in the planning room I'd roast the product as unusually offensive to most sensibilities. Then again, I'm in no way running a billion dollar successful software company so what do I know?
- lccerina 2y agoSumatra has also a portable version. Doesn't that work for you?
- pletnes 2y agoIf IT finds an exe file they go bonkers. If they find a PDF, who will even care?
- TeMPOraL 2y agoPray Microsoft Defender will be nice enough to not look at the PDF too closely.
- pletnes 2y agoIt can use the pdf reader in the pdf to look closely if it wants to
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- extraduder_ire 2y agoDepends on how long they've been in IT. A good while back, exploits in adobe reader were so common that pdf files were a common malware vector.
- patapong 2y agoPDF, the true universal app platform. Please don't tell Microsoft.
- DonHopkins 2y agoPDF clusters: each page of the document is running an independent virtual machine, and they share a private network.
- mushufasa 2y agothis sounds like the beginning of a cyberattack....
- sumtechguy 2y agothrow in a bunch of kubernetes just to make it more interesting.
- tpoacher 2y ago"Yo dawg I heard you like pdfs so I put a pdf reader into your pdfs so that you can pdf while you pdf".
- loopasam 2y agoBelieve it or not, that's my use-case for MS Edge, it has surprisingly decent features (for editing too)
- mikepurvis 2y agoI actually hit this recently with a Google Docs generated PDF (print -> download) that wasn't rendering correctly in Chrome or Firefox, but did load as expected in Edge.
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- niutech 2y agoYou can run MuPDF in Wasm: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40096113 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40096113