Pdftool.org: modify pdfs offline in the browser

Re:Pdftool.org: modify pdfs offline in the browser by Tomte on Sunday August 13, 2023 @12:08PM (#37111211)

> You do not believe us? We know that websites on the internet promise a lot of stuff. You can try our promise by yourself. Load the webpage, disable your internet connection and start editing PDFs. You are gonna be surprised.

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Re:Pdftool.org: modify pdfs offline in the browser by GavinMcG on Sunday August 13, 2023 @12:28PM (#37111416)

The question is about being able to load in the first place. Can it be loaded in one machine, saved, and then opened in the browser of another machine?

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Re:Pdftool.org: modify pdfs offline in the browser by sebazzz on Sunday August 13, 2023 @12:31PM (#37111445)

Same machine or not, browsers often have special rules for file:// urls.

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Re:Pdftool.org: modify pdfs offline in the browser by albert_e on Sunday August 13, 2023 @12:51PM (#37111647)

Technically the app can cache files and phone home the next time we connect to internet i guess? Not aware of how WASM works.

Not paranoid but just want to know if this tool can be downloaded once and run from browser forever -- without having to disable internet.

Does it not generate any network traffic at all - zero - even when there is internet connectivity available? Whether to the home domain or otherwise? Even telemetry?

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Re:Pdftool.org: modify pdfs offline in the browser by pdftoolorg on Sunday August 13, 2023 @01:34PM (#37112092)

we do not use any telemtry on the site, not event google analytics but i have to say that cloudflare reports us on page-hits, which is included in the free version

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Re:Pdftool.org: modify pdfs offline in the browser by johnfernow on Monday August 14, 2023 @02:23AM (#37118068)

> Not paranoid but just want to know if this tool can be downloaded once and run from browser forever -- without having to disable internet.

You can turn off Internet for a single tab through Chrome's dev tools. F12, Network, change from "No throttling" to "Offline." Would be a bit annoying to do each time you use the app though.

Unfortunately not aware of a quick easy way to cut off Internet to a single tab in Firefox, but if you're fine temporarily killing Internet access to the entire browser (all tabs), you can do Alt > File > Work Offline. With the keyboard shortcuts (Alt > F > K) it's actually very fast to do.

It would be nice though if you opened a local .html file if it by default was cut off from accessing the Internet until it asked for and was granted permission by the user, much like GPS, webcam and mic use are. Would be much more convenient than the two options above (which require you to remember to do that each time you use the app.)

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