One of the first things I do on family computers is set PDFs to open in Chrome. (If I have time and the authority I also remove Acrobat.) It's saved me a lot of hassle.
Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable
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Re: Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable
#62Chrome uses the open source PDFium engine to render PDFs. That should let anyone view and use 99% of PDFs
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
ok thank you so much... finally an open source pdf reader thats not acrobat that works (hopefully, still testing). on the issue of pdf forms, my gosh they just should not exist, thats what web pages are for.
pdf forms are pretty convenient when you need to fill it in, print and send to government by snail main or show in person or sent digitally. Happens in some places more often than in others.
They're also amazing for digital TTRPG sheets. You can send around the PDF form, and everyone can fill out and store their own sheet, print it, send it back to the GM, whatever the group needs.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
that plus the quick look from smashing the space bar in Finder. selecting a file and hitting space is muscle memory for me, and the first time I do it on a non-macOS computer it just feels broken to me.
Microsoft PowerToys has this functionality, called Peek: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/peek
Is that something that comes built-in or installed?
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
PDF is no longer a single format. You have to specify what type of PDF. Many will not open in anything but Acrobat. For example the Wisconsin state dept. of natural resources converted nearly all of their permit/form PDFs to "Dynamic XFA (XML Form Architecture) PDF". Which is basically a PDF without content that pulls down all it's content from the web. It even still, ostensibly, supports Flash (swf) animations. But…
Thank you for giving the specific name ("Dynamic XFA (XML Form Architecture)") to the kind of PDF that generates the "Please wait" message. I have seen this and never understood how it arises. Chuck Geschke spins in his grave ...
Indeed, the "Chuck Geschke spinning in his grave" animation wouldn't have been possible without Flash support!
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#66Re: Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable
#67I still use Acrobat for two things:
- Viewing Altium generated schematics, which have some macros that only work in Acrobat.
- Printing stuff. Acrobat print dialog is pretty good.
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#68Personally I'm still impressed by Adobe's work there. They designed the PDF format but still manage to have the worst PDF reader on the entire market.
It aint easy being cheesy. It’s truly impressive how they’ve been able to lock in and lock down the entire corporate world for 2 decades while being that mediocre.
Also equally baffling how mediocre all the alternatives are.
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#69In my experience, anyone running Wayland is very much used to some number of applications that depend on Xwayland. Does Zathura + MuPDF not work with it? Either way, if you want to show off a project, just do so…
Yeah, it works perfectly fine for me on hyprland.
Re: Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable
#70Just use sumatraPDF. Works on wine.