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Re:Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root... by superhuzza on Thursday May 14, 2020 @04:12PM (#23184760)
I use Okular because I like being able to:

- Highlight

- Leave expandable comments

- See the page thumbnails

- Have access to area select/table select

- Configure my pdf reader quite a bit

I spend a lot of time reading .pdfs because I'm in grad school right now. Using Okular is way more convenient than trying to use browsers. This is not a strange use case at all, many people who frequently read .pdfs have the same needs.

And it's clearly not trying to sell me on a pdf editor, because it's not related to a paid editor. Or at least I'm not aware of it, either way is fine by me.

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Re:Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root... by Terretta on Thursday May 14, 2020 @04:53PM (#23185278)
Those are all cool, and for those plus more, I prefer the relatively obscure LiquidText for annotation:

https://www.liquidtext.net/liquidtextadeeperdive

(To a sibling comment, just stop using MacOS: it's not a rule, but the usability and craftsmanship sensibilities that create software like LiquidText tend to cluster with the usability and craftsmanship sensibilities that appreciate MacOS.)

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Re:Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root... by codethief on Thursday May 14, 2020 @07:14PM (#23186782)
> https://www.liquidtext.net/liquidtextadeeperdive

I was really hoping to find a good application for reading & annotating PDFs on Linux behind this link.

:(

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Re:Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root... by superhuzza on Thursday May 14, 2020 @09:57PM (#23188024)
Give okular a try!
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