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Author:  Barry_Collins [ Wed Apr 29, 2009 7:51 am ]
Post subject:  Adobe: switch off Javascript in PDF Reader
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
Author:  HeatherKay [ Wed Apr 29, 2009 8:08 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Adobe: switch off Javascript in PDF Reader
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>
Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:34 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Adobe: switch off Javascript in PDF Reader
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
Author:  HeatherKay [ Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:39 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Adobe: switch off Javascript in PDF Reader
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! :D
Author:  MrStevenRogers [ Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:52 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Adobe: switch off Javascript in PDF Reader
HeatherKay wrote:
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! :D

you most certainly are, Stanley … :) …
Author:  big_D [ Wed Apr 29, 2009 10:24 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Adobe: switch off Javascript in PDF Reader
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...
Author:  l3v1ck [ Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:00 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Adobe: switch off Javascript in PDF Reader
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. :evil:
Author:  Greemble [ Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Adobe: switch off Javascript in PDF Reader
HeatherKay wrote:
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>

And it certainly gives you enough time to loathe it, while it's launching...
Author:  big_D [ Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:58 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Adobe: switch off Javascript in PDF Reader
Greemble wrote:
And it certainly gives you enough time to loathe it, while it's launching...


I have CS3 on my machine at work and it loads in a couple of seconds... :?
Author:  HeatherKay [ Thu Apr 30, 2009 10:04 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Adobe: switch off Javascript in PDF Reader
big_D wrote:
I have CS3 on my machine at work and it loads in a couple of seconds... :?


So does mine, but it doesn't make me like it.
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