If someone knows how to disable this fuckery, please tell me or i have to install adobe acrobat, it makes me crazy as it floats on all the open PDFs, covering text/content
This. Op, remove foxit and use a proper pdf reader.
I recommend Okular
Open new files in tabs doesn’t seem to work in the windows version. Bummed out about that.
Acrobat also added an unclosable floating menu. It’s a massive pain in my ass.
That’s why I use edge (I know ugh) when I don’t need to comment sign or edit PDFs. I don’t want to use Firefox so it doesn’t get mixed up with all my other open tabs.
At least in a browser I can delete elements when it gets bad enough
Firefox Nightly to the rescue!
The reader in Edge is good tho, because it uses Microsoft Azure’s TTS.
Preview is pretty good.
Linux PDF readers don’t have this bullshit in the first place
I love Linux and I use it quite a bit but I’ve not really found a Linux software that is good at editing PDFs.
If you have recommendations I would love to hear them though
I know it’s kind of a meme to call some software bloated, but foxit reader is bloated AF
The sad thing is that foxit used to be the great alternative, back in the day.
Adobe PDF is also good if you know where to get it for free. I esp. rely on the editing feature of Adobe PDF. Has saved me so much hassle to edit PDF files cleanly.
Where do you get it for free?
yarhaha
monkrus repacks are generally seen as safe, but some sites carry fake versions of the repacks which are loaded with viruses.
Yup. Monkrus is the best place
I would also recommend to use CCStopper and use the Add to Hosts option to further block out any attempts to check for genuine.
Hey this name is familiar… these guys sent me all their app telemetry for a couple weeks because they hardcoded AWS LB IPs into their software, and I got lucky enough to get one of those recycled IPs.
Wouldn’t be surprised if their apps are still screwed up and sending large amounts of junk traffic at me, but at least now it’s going into a void.
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That sounds like a huge privacy concern?
Because the above commenter didn’t pay them for the data?
I hate everytime anybody even mentions AI as it, to me, translates directly to “massive waste of time for gimmicks and hype.” They added some kind of AI prompt button to my main browser a while back and I spent the next several hours searching how to disable it completely.
Did nobody learn from Clippy?! At least make it a purple gorilla ffs.
Thanks for reminding me to uninstall Foxit reader. Last week at work I read an article about yet another security flaw in Foxit Reader, and I thought: “I have to uninstall that when I get home” but then I forgot about it.
Foxit Reader used to be a useful tool waaaay back in time. Now it is time for it to go.
Is this FoxIt? What the hell, FoxIt used to be cool.
Anyway, if all you need is a .pdf reader and don’t need any editing or form fill BS, just uninstall all your .pdf readers because they’re totally redundant these days. Firefox and all other browsers can natively read .pdf’s. If you need to mess with the content of a .pdf, Inkscape (open source) does a competent job of taking them apart and letting you edit them nowadays.
I’m of the opinion that bloated memory hog .pdf applications full of subscriptions and ads and other bullshit can just die in a fire. I haven’t actually needed one for years.
I used to use Foxit for the longest time, but Firefox’s pdf reader has improved so much lately that I actually prefer it.
I like to have things not in firefox. It makes it easier to manage the 50 windows and tabs that I have open
Yeah, I used to use it to fix my RPG PDFs. (Seriously, it’s astounding how many publishers either omit or completely fuck up bookmarks.) I found out it went to shit when trying to help someone else do the same, and the newer free version was significantly cut down.
My main issue with browser PDF reading is that I can’t compile and apply my signature on PDF with them, which are the main reasons I’m still using Foxit.
I’ve had assignments that involve editing a PDF template. So far, LibreOffice Draw has worked for me.
Why not just use acrobat?
Because Fuck Adobe.
Fair enough, but the free version of acrobat is still a good product for basic PDF functions, and doesn’t benefit them at all by using it.
For the record, I use FF 99% of the time, and GIMP or LibreDraw if I need to edit them.
You can just sign using your mouse/trackpad, and then copy and paste the signature to fill in the entire form.
This doesn’t cover digital signatures (cryptographic signatures with RSA/ECDSA)
There’s also okular. Basically anything that the kde foundation puts out will invariably be cross platform and pretty good.
I’ll give them both a try.
The main issue that I’ve run into is that foxit has a pretty decent signing system for signing PDFs which comes in handy from time to time and foxit and adobe both have batch editing for PDFs which is really handy for taking a bunch of random documents and sizing them to be all the same view size and rotating pages and the like to make everything nice and uniform for sharing with others.
Firefox added a decent signing feature. idk bout batch editing tho
FoxIt is Chinese. If you don’t care about your data potentially being transmitted across the globe, it’s a well working software.
But be warned; pdfjs has a bunch of XSS vulnerabilities every month, which aren’t possible outside the browser environment.
Only seen it (FoxIt) installed in a corporate environment, because for some reason businesses cannot stop using “Interactive editable PDFs”.
I wonder if there are FOSS alternatives adressing that niche.Interactive editable PDFs? As in forms?
Mozilla Firefox can edit forms, as can Sumatra PDF. Maybe Chrome and Edge are capable enough too.
I use libreDraw for editing pdf
Just use Firefox for reading PDFs
It gets buried in my pile of Firefox tabs, so I usually use edge. I could probably set up a different user or something to keep them separate, but I’ve been to lazy so far.
Wait, what, seriously?! Firefox keeps on giving and I only switched back recently.
Yeap you can even add text and draw on PDF now. This means you can easily fill in forms or sign documents with nothing but your favorite browser.
If you really need to “edit” pdf, like moving or editing existing text, I heard libre office draw can edit pdf. https://www.libreofficehelp.com/modify-edit-pdf-free-libreoffice-draw/
I’m kinda done with everyone adding an AI assistant. Like it’s cool but I don’t always need an assistant. It’s not cool or new, every has one. Just develop it if you want but don’t shove it down our throats.
Microsoft just added AI to their terminal/command console thingy. 🤦♂️
Wait what? I thought, they’d integrate it in the OS like they did with cortana - or Bing search in the start menu…
I’m from the EU, so I’m lucky and won’t see this anytime soon, but what does it do and how does it work in the Terminal? Is it a new tab complete, but with AI hallucinations instead of real commands/filenames?
Ok, so they’re not targeting “day to day command-line use”, but development in general and want to offer a way to explain error messages, generate code, etc. If done right, and the model is trained in a good way, that might work. All the problems surrounding code gen models and copyright/license issues from the generated code still apply, though.
Especially the mention of WinDBG support and probably a way to guide you through might be a really nice feature.
Skimming through the MS blog post, that your link mentiones, I don’t really believe in the hype of “now everyone can be a developer” it offers - I’ve seen that too often with low-code, no-code, RPA,… tools to know that it won’t really scale. There’s more to development than just to generate code…
