how does Jow Forums read PDFs?
How does Jow Forums read PDFs?
left to right
PDFs are such a goddamn disaster. I've worked with them in PDFBox and I'm amazed that they ever gained mainstream adoption. What an unintuitive piece of shit format.
In Microsoft Edge.
with my eyes
Generally with my ereader. If it's just something I'm pulling up on my desktop for a moment I just use whatever Debian's default viewer is
Evince?
with zathura
Sumatra PDF
Hasn't been updated in years, but it still works.
emacs pdf-tools
Evince.
sumatraPDF for most things. Mendeley if I'm reading research papers.
xpdf
I still don't understand why PDF readers need to be updated. Has the standard changed any since it was introduced? My 486 opened PDFs just fine, but my i5 needs "light" software to do it because Acrobat was to fucking heavy
fpbp
katarakt
Evince
I use zathura, user
Same
adobe reader
I drag them into chrome because chrome plays everything.
newfags need up-to-date software
PDFs can contain executable code and PostScript is Turing-complete
>tfw pdf's are "standard"
>tfw governments and other big orgs are fond of using them
>tfw they are also fond of using using them with non-standard fill-able pdfs
>tfw only adobe can enter data into those properly
Fuck, I mean, at that point you might be better with docx, at least I can edit it in a crossplatform manner
>ctrl + f
>llpp
>0
I am disappointed in all of you
At the supermarket
`pdf2text $pdf | less`
zathura
with mupdf
Preview.app :sunglasses:
unless it's manga
I print them
Explain this more.
Is there anyway to edit them on Linux?
I'm in a situation like that.
Based Evince bros
zathura