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Re:Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open sour... by hulitu on Thursday March 09, 2023 @08:32AM (#35080967)
> Part of the push to use the browsers pdf engine was a result of Adobe acrobat being an endless festival of security bugs.

The browsers are also "an endless festival of security bugs." Especially since they started to execute remote code. I can't view pdfs in browser. I need to zoom, find, and copy parts of (electronical schematics) pdfs and the browser version just sucks.

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Re:Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open sour... by pcdevils on Friday March 10, 2023 @05:26PM (#35102093)
Agreed. I still use acrobat for form filling and this one for the rest
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