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Re: Linux Running in a PDF

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Post by tpoacher » Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 12:37 PM UTC

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.

"Yo dawg I heard you like pdfs so I put a pdf reader into your pdfs so that you can pdf while you pdf".

Re: Linux Running in a PDF

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Post by surrTurr » Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 12:41 PM UTC

Doesn't work, the document is unresponsive. I used a HP DeskJet 2820e Printer btw.

Re: Linux Running in a PDF

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Post by sillyboi » Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 12:47 PM UTC

At least three detections on VirusTotal, but I'm not sure if it's significant.

ClamAV: Js.Trojan.Obfus-48

Cylance: Unsafe

Google: Detected

Re: Linux Running in a PDF

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Post by G_o_D » Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 12:53 PM UTC

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.

Still you will need reader to open that pdf

Re: Linux Running in a PDF

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Post by bpev » Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 1:07 PM UTC

ingest this, gemini

Re: Linux Running in a PDF

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Post by pletnes » Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 1:08 PM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #37

pletnes wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If IT finds an exe file they go bonkers. If they find a PDF, who will even care?

Pray Microsoft Defender will be nice enough to not look at the PDF too closely.

It can use the pdf reader in the pdf to look closely if it wants to

Re: Linux Running in a PDF

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Post by loopasam » Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 1:10 PM UTC

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)

Re: Linux Running in a PDF

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Post by andrelaszlo » Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 1:11 PM UTC

otteromkram wrote: post #28

taurknaut wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had assumed it went the way of Adobe Flash many years ago.

Well, you know what they say about assume...

Accidentally Turing complete?

Re: Linux Running in a PDF

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Post by spwa4 » Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 1:11 PM UTC

beretguy wrote: post #30

surrTurr wrote: post #20

Who the hell keeps making those? First I saw Tetris, now a whole OS. Awesome!

Linux in browser existed for a while. And if PDF can run JS then just put "Linux.js" in PDF. JS opens up a whole can of worms.

About time someone gets a somewhat intelligent LLM working in js too (I know it can be done now, but like the linux js, there's a very large difference between what existed and what is practical)

Re: Linux Running in a PDF

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Post by apricot » Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 1:11 PM 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.

AI assistants are this generation's Clippy.