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Did anyone try to pluck out PDFs from /dev/urandom? How about from radiotelescope feed? Maybe the first evidence of extraterrestrial life will be some poor alien's tax form?
The digits of pi contain every pdf that ever could and ever will exist.
PDF support in Firefox is one of the most important additions in recent years. My gripe with Mozilla was they're pursing all these side projects when they really should be targeting feature parity with Chrome. That's the only way people will ever switch.
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Irrational does not imply normal. For example, 1.01001000100001... is irrational but it's certainly not normal.
Actually I'd argue the example you provided is normal, as long as you authorise a particular encoding where every number n you're looking for is encoded as a string of n zeros. It's then trivial to see that every number you can think of is encoded in there, and therefore any data, piece of music or movie that ever existed. (I'm not sure we're allowed to fiddle with the encoding, but since we allow ourselves to repres…
Also, 1.01001000100001... is a good example of a number that is both irrational and transcendental but not normal.
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Well, it's a PDF reader that doesn't come with a tracking package, so in a way—yes.
What's the problem with the Poppler-based ones? I've been producing (with LaTeX) and consuming (with Poppler/Okular) PDFs for a decade and never once have I had to worry about anything related to the format (including tracking).
OK, Firefox is, sadly, far from being a mainstream browser nowadays, but still I suspect it has a larger user base than Poppler.
A note for Linux and macOS users, from someone who switched to windows one year ago: it’s maybe surprising but it is a VERY REAL pain in the Windows world to find a pdf reader that also allows you to edit forms, that doesn’t also come with malware or adware, and has even just a modest UX! So for sure you already have access to Evince and Preview.app, they already do everything you want, but Windows users don’t really…
I will use Firefox for editable form pdfs but for those that don't have editable forms, I will continue to use Okular/Gimp.
I actually stumbled across the ability to edit forms in Firefox only recently. I was like... What? This is amazing! For some reason the pdf i clicked on opened in Firefox and yeah, surprised.
I looked into coding PDFs once. Then I closed my MacBook (Pro) and went for a long walk into the ocean. I think I almost got to America, but then I turned and swam back again. Turnd out I had just fallen asleep and had a nightmare. I was actually just working with regular text files, and everything was fine.
My favourite PDF fact is that it doesn't have to start at the beginning or end at the end of a file. Any sea of bytes that contains a PDF file is an acceptable PDF file...
Sheesh, what's with the hate for a generally all-round useful feature in an Open source browser? The last thing I want is to have to install 3rd-party software on my machine and have my browser be held hostage to it just to view PDF documents on the web. Being able to fill them in is a very useful feature and the in-browser PDF readers are still way less bloated than most other plugins.
Yes, this is a nice feature added to a basically-reasonable implementation of a PDF viewer. I think the objection is that that PDF viewer should be an actual independent application, not baked into a browser that already is too many things to too many people. It's like Chrome including a basic antivirus function ( https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2765944?co=GENIE.Pl... ) - yes it's useful, yes I trust it more…
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If I remember correctly the XML format was just an XML-encoded version of the binary counterpart. Including all or most of the bugs and weird hacks.
with the previous format being essentially a memory dump, i'd say that's progress
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At least it's probably better than MS-Word's internal format ... (?)
I'm not saying it's beautiful, but isn't Ms-Word's internal format basically a series of XML files that are zipped up? The old .Doc and .xls files were a bad format, but my understanding is that since Office 2007 the format is generally much better.
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I recently made the switch to gnome as the multi-monitor support, fractional scaling and general Wayland support is only excelled by sway. I sorely miss Okular!
Can't you still run KDE apps under Gnome, even with Wayland? I use a few. Some of them look better with the "QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland" environment variable.