Microsoft to Replace Edge’s PDF Reader with Adobe Acrobat

Re:Microsoft to Replace Edge’s PDF Reader with Adobe Acrobat by shp0ngle on Monday February 13, 2023 @03:04AM (#34771218)

In my experience with PDFs, no other PDF program can really open all the weird PDFs, except for Acrobat Reader. Especially with regards to PDF Forms.

The funny thing is, only Acrobat Reader on PC and Mac is like that. If you open some of the weird PDFs on their phone Acrobat Reader or web Acrobat Reader, they are about as broken as they are in Pdfium (Chrome’s open source PDF reader, based on licensed FoxIt) or Preview, let alone pdf.js.

Not even Adobe can really port their format readers on phone and javascript.

(But that’s my experience with Word/Excel too)

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Re:Microsoft to Replace Edge’s PDF Reader with Adobe Acrobat by Synaesthesia on Monday February 13, 2023 @03:12AM (#34771255)

There are certain PDFs that only render correctly in acrobat, and need acrobat to open, like my monthly municipal statements.

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Re:Microsoft to Replace Edge’s PDF Reader with Adobe Acrobat by throwaway_3850 on Monday February 13, 2023 @04:05AM (#34771522)

I am afraid, some day, the "Portable"DF ecosystem will be fragmented and guarded by wannabe monopolies like all those CAD formats. Does adobe try to monopolise the PDF ecosystem and pulls dirty tricks?

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