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Re:Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root... by reaperducer on Thursday May 14, 2020 @01:24PM (#23182436)
The good news is, unlike Windows, macOS has a fantastic default PDF viewer ("Preview") and I don't know why anyone would ever install Acrobat on it

I, too, prefer Preview to Acrobat. But part of my workflow occasionally involves copying text from a PDF to create a web page. Preview cannot be counted on to reliably or accurately copy that text. It seems to have particular problems with the letter "f" when next to a letter "s," in addition to other flaws.

Acrobat, on the other hand, always copies the text correctly.

Aside from this one use, however, I always employ Preview because otherwise it is far superior.

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Re:Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root... by PhantomGremlin on Thursday May 14, 2020 @02:08PM (#23183152)
It seems to have particular problems with the letter "f" when next to a letter "s," in addition to other flaws.

That's such a weird bug. I wonder if Preview is trying to be too cute with "less common" stylistic ligatures. Try some of the other ones mentioned in Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthographic_ligature#Stylisti...

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