Linux Running in a PDF

Post by pletnes » Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 11:24 AM UTC

albert_e wrote: post #7

pletnes wrote: post #3

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.

Are 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.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 11:24 AM UTC

beretguy wrote: post #31

Set pdfjs.enableScripting in Firefox about:config to false.

Post by pletnes » Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 11:25 AM UTC

lccerina wrote: post #12

pletnes wrote: post #3

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.

Sumatra has also a portable version. Doesn't that work for you?

Post by timwheeler » Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 11:27 AM UTC

karel-3d wrote: post #22

Finally, I can `rm -rf /` in a PDF.

Post by ptspts » Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 11:31 AM UTC

nialv7 wrote: post #35

Using JS for this feels like cheating... I wonder if similar things would be possible with PostScript?