Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Linux Running in a PDF

linux.doompdf.dev

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

101–110 of 116 posts

Re: Linux Running in a PDF

#101

Post by mikepurvis »

loopasam wrote: post #67
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.

Believe it or not, that's my use-case for MS Edge, it has surprisingly decent features (for editing too)

I 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.

Re: Linux Running in a PDF

#102

Post by kristopolous »

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.

it'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?

Re: Linux Running in a PDF

#105

Post by worble »

achrono wrote: post #86
yapyap wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean if he’s searching for a good PDF reader I doubt he’ll be opening it in Adobe Reader

True 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.

I'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.

Re: Linux Running in a PDF

#106

Post by firtoz »

mrweasel wrote: post #78
neilv wrote: post #46

1. Linux Running in a PDF (doompdf.dev) 114 points by theden 4 hours ago | flag | hide | 37 comments 2. Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything (sergey.fyi) 978 points by serjester 17 hours ago | flag | hide | 323 comments As people start bolting various kinds of PDF parsers and evaluators to LLMs, there's got to be some interesting hack potential.

Linux running in a LLM, as a means to hijack computing resources to train an LLM... or mine bitcoins.

Is it able to have data come out of it though, or is it fully... "sandboxed"? I am guessing the only output is the visual feedback you get when it's rendered?

Oh... I guess if you can somehow have it trigger a "load an image with this query string" or something that could be a way to communicate with the rest of the world

Re: Linux Running in a PDF

#109

Post by shlomo_z »

frabert wrote: post #47

Finally! I've been making the joke "put Linux.js in a PDF so I can run Linux, inside a PDF, inside a browser, inside Linux, inside a PDF, inside a browser, inside Linux" for far too long...

not exactly. This PDF cannot open a browser... yet!
Post reply on HN