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Re:Converting untrusted PDFs into trusted ones: The Qubes Wa... by lysace on Thursday December 12, 2024 @06:22PM (#42404453)
Yeah, avoiding Adobe software is probably a mandatory first step in this context.

If I remember correctly Google bought a source code license from some Aussie company (?) for rendering PDFs in Chrome. That was like a decade ago though. I wonder what happened since. Probably lots.

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Re:Converting untrusted PDFs into trusted ones: The Qubes Wa... by AlotOfReading on Thursday December 12, 2024 @07:35PM (#42404892)
Google bought a license from Foxit, a Chinese company. They've open sourced it since. Mozilla wrote their own and also open sourced it, PDF.js
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Re:Converting untrusted PDFs into trusted ones: The Qubes Wa... by lysace on Thursday December 12, 2024 @07:49PM (#42404977)
I do believe Foxit didn't present itself as a Chinese company at the time. Not sure where I got the Aussie thing from. They do and/or did have a Melbourne office. Perhaps its address was used for marketing purposes at the time.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140529210328/http://www.foxits...

> Founded in 2001, Foxit is a leading software provider of solutions for reading, editing, creating, organizing, and securing PDF documents. Headquartered in Fremont, CA, USA, Foxit has operations worldwide in China, Belgium, Japan, and Taiwan

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Re:Converting untrusted PDFs into trusted ones: The Qubes Wa... by gruez on Thursday December 12, 2024 @08:01PM (#42405037)
There's more details in the wikipedia talk page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Foxit_Software

seems like most of their presence was in china, and was domiciled in china, but they had sales "offices" in other countries and so they emphasized that part for better PR.

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