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minus-square野麦さん@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·7 months agoSo Adobe’s headassery and proprietary lock on .pdf has introduced a new vector of malware! I fucking hate Adobe they should be broken up
minus-squareOnomatopoeia@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·7 months agoThat’s insightful. I’d wondered why other PDF apps came on the market in the mid 2000’s.
minus-squareintelligentandarticulate@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoIs there an alternative format to PDF that behaves similarly? I’m not talking about docx or others, because portability is a mess with those.
minus-squaregwilikers@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoIm just curious, what makes you say that PDF is a shitty format? I remember starting to read a book on PDFs before when I was trying to learn to code with them and being surprised how much work it actually entailed.
So Adobe’s headassery and proprietary lock on .pdf has introduced a new vector of malware!
I fucking hate Adobe they should be broken up
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That’s insightful.
I’d wondered why other PDF apps came on the market in the mid 2000’s.
Is there an alternative format to PDF that behaves similarly? I’m not talking about docx or others, because portability is a mess with those.
Im just curious, what makes you say that PDF is a shitty format? I remember starting to read a book on PDFs before when I was trying to learn to code with them and being surprised how much work it actually entailed.