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The fact that they called it "portable" document format and now I regularly get PDFs that display "Please open this file in Acrobat" if opened in any other view
by sureglymop 1y ago
The fact that they called it "portable" document format and now I regularly get PDFs that display "Please open this file in Acrobat" if opened in any other viewer... Great stuff.
- foolswisdom 1y agoWait, this actually happens?
- acdha 1y agoConstantly. They added a bunch of scripting extensions so a lot of fillable forms render a message telling you to use Acrobat until all of that stuff executes.
- cbolton 1y agoThose are probably PDFs with XFA forms. Not very common in general but if you often get PDFs from sources that use that then yeah you'll see it all the time. Good news it that it was deprecated, it's not in PDF 2.0.
- nichos 1y agoHappens often if you're using documents that are signed with a smart card. Sadly, browsers can't sign PDFs yet either.