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Re:Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various op... by noAnswer on Monday December 25, 2023 @07:44PM (#38767843)
Sadly I had to install Adobe Reader on my father PC again after he had documents* with formulas. Chrome would calculate the numbers wrong. Everything was off by 10.

*To get reimburses from a union or something.

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Re:Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various op... by asdfologist on Monday December 25, 2023 @07:46PM (#38767850)
Whoa, I had no idea PDFs can have formulas.
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Re:Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various op... by SturgeonsLaw on Monday December 25, 2023 @09:15PM (#38768364)
You can embed Javascript in PDFs
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Re:Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various op... by fuzztester on Monday December 25, 2023 @11:21PM (#38768895)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38768892
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Re:Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various op... by aragonite on Monday December 25, 2023 @10:23PM (#38768672)
If you occasionally need Adobe Reader/Acrobat exclusive features but don't want to install, you can use the free online version of Acrobat. It's pretty decent though it doesn't have all the features:

https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/

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Re:Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various op... by manmal on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @04:34AM (#38770223)
I recently had issues with macOS‘ Preview.app and formulas. It’s a nice feature, but probably not widely supported.
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