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Press F12.
It runs an opaque WASM.
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PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading
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Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading
#42The lack of a good PDF editor in Linux has always seemed strange to me, considering the relative frequency of "fiddle with a PDF" tasks like splicing pages and so on. Sure you can do it with Pdftk (or stapler these days), and a mish-mash of pdfinfo, Imagemagick and so on but the GUI programs mostly seem pretty bad offerings considering they're a fairly thin shell around library operations.
xournal++
Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading
#43"uses WebAssembly" - forgive me but what? How do I know my PDF isn't going to Russia? or China? I mean, I could wireshark it but I'd like to know more about what's in the webassembly. PDF's are sensitive to some organizations. As already stated, some orgs even block online pdf tools for obvious reasons. I'm interested in this but I would be even more so if there was source so I can audit. Since it's running locally i…
> going to Russia? or China? always ironic when ppl say this on websites hosted in the us, a country with the most documented cases of governmental organisation backdooring/spying :/
touche... touche... but we invented the internetz... we know what's best. right? riiiight?
Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading
#44So most common online pdf tools like smallpdf.com and ilovepdf.com are blocked on office networks for obvious reasons. Can we save this page as .html file on a local folder and run it from browser -- never triggering the firewall / websense blockers etc?
> You do not believe us? We know that websites on the internet promise a lot of stuff. You can try our promise by yourself. Load the webpage, disable your internet connection and start editing PDFs. You are gonna be surprised.
Technically the app can cache files and phone home the next time we connect to internet i guess? Not aware of how WASM works.
Not paranoid but just want to know if this tool can be downloaded once and run from browser forever -- without having to disable internet.
Does it not generate any network traffic at all - zero - even when there is internet connectivity available? Whether to the home domain or otherwise? Even telemetry?
Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading
#45I use Xournal++ for this on linux - works pretty well for my use-cases, which is mostly annotation
Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading
#46> "Keep your sensitive data to yourself. Wether you are modifying banking statements, prescription or other critical documents, we have no access to it." > Source not available, no acknowledgement or explanation as to why > Hacker News upvotes it to the front page
Browsers need a "block all outgoing request from this page from now" button.
Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading
#47"uses WebAssembly" - forgive me but what? How do I know my PDF isn't going to Russia? or China? I mean, I could wireshark it but I'd like to know more about what's in the webassembly. PDF's are sensitive to some organizations. As already stated, some orgs even block online pdf tools for obvious reasons. I'm interested in this but I would be even more so if there was source so I can audit. Since it's running locally i…
What does it even mean lol. I really like how you implied that it's a problem of WebAssembly. How is checking a web page's network connection, WebAssembly or not, harder than reading ALL the source code (if you don't read them all you can't be sure!) of a non-trivial app?
I was expecting something along the lines of pdf.js or something. WebAssembly was a shock, but I looked at the asm, saw golang, decompiled back to go and looked. all good. still... all it takes is an errant http.client call.
Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading
#48> "Keep your sensitive data to yourself. Wether you are modifying banking statements, prescription or other critical documents, we have no access to it." > Source not available, no acknowledgement or explanation as to why > Hacker News upvotes it to the front page
Browsers need a "block all outgoing request from this page from now" button.
We need this button!! Someone from Firefox team please make this happen.
Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading
#49Does it allow adding text and drawing signatures? This is a very common use case but I can’t figure out how to do it with this tool.
Re: PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading
#50"uses WebAssembly" - forgive me but what? How do I know my PDF isn't going to Russia? or China? I mean, I could wireshark it but I'd like to know more about what's in the webassembly. PDF's are sensitive to some organizations. As already stated, some orgs even block online pdf tools for obvious reasons. I'm interested in this but I would be even more so if there was source so I can audit. Since it's running locally i…
> going to Russia? or China? always ironic when ppl say this on websites hosted in the us, a country with the most documented cases of governmental organisation backdooring/spying :/
Buddy I've got news for you if you think that Russia and China are more virtuous on the internet than the U.S.