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Barry_Collins
Dennis Magazines
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Adobe is urging customers to disable Javascript in its Reader and Acrobat products, in a bid to thwart a serious security bug. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/252095/adobe-switch-off-javascript-in-pdf-reader.html_________________Barry Collins Online Editor - PC Pro http://www.pcpro.co.uk
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HeatherKay
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Can anyone explain to me why Adobe Reader even needs JavaScript?  Acrobat is one of the applications, like Word, where it's continually had bloat shoehorned into it. It's become a buggy piece of cr@p. Actually, it's always been a buggy piece of cr@p, and I hate using it - whenever I can get away with it, I use the OSX supplied PDF reader as it's quicker and has just enough features to do the job. That job, for me, is reading PDF documents, and making annotations if required. I have to use Acrobat Pro in the Bat Cave, because our primary delivery medium is PDF. So, I have to use it to check stuff, and occasionally edit incoming. I loathe it every time I launch it. </rant> _________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter. "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi.
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MrStevenRogers
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:44 pm
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i use this for FF on the Mac … firefox PDF plugin for OS X The extension uses the built-in PDF support in Mac OS X to display PDF documents within Firefox 3. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7518
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HeatherKay
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I also turn off the browser view, because it's bl00dy annoying. I'd much rather download and read offline. Right old grump, aren't I!  _________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter. "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi.
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MrStevenRogers
Spends far too much time on here
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you most certainly are, Stanley …  …
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big_D
What's a life?
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I never understood why they needed to embed JavaScript and Flash into the PDF format either.
Surely the point of PDF is to get a document over in a simple, platform independent way. You don't generally need a script to view a document! As they have Air/Flex, why do they need to put everything into Acrobat / PDF? I think they are trying to be all things to all people and failing horribly, by providing tools that are bloated and don't do what the users want...
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am
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Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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I hate opening PDF's in browsers. For some reason it takes tan times longer to load than if you download the file and open it in PDF Reader. Some times it even crashed the browser. 
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Greemble
Has a life
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 3:36 pm
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Location: Close to the edge, down by a river
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And it certainly gives you enough time to loathe it, while it's launching... _________________Be not afraid your life will end - Be more afraid it may never begin  Keeping my Dennis level, though 
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big_D
What's a life?
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I have CS3 on my machine at work and it loads in a couple of seconds...
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HeatherKay
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So does mine, but it doesn't make me like it. _________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter. "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi.
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