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

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
    104·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • ricecake@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      49·
      11 months ago

      There’s also okular. Basically anything that the kde foundation puts out will invariably be cross platform and pretty good.

      • Bizarroland@kbin.social
        3·
        11 months ago

        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.

        • dubyakay@lemmy.caEnglish
          41·
          11 months ago

          FoxIt is Chinese. If you don’t care about your data potentially being transmitted across the globe, it’s a well working software.

    • kakes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      17·
      11 months ago

      I used to use Foxit for the longest time, but Firefox’s pdf reader has improved so much lately that I actually prefer it.

      • abbadon420@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        I like to have things not in firefox. It makes it easier to manage the 50 windows and tabs that I have open

    • MonkderZweite@feddit.chEnglish
      101·
      11 months ago

      But be warned; pdfjs has a bunch of XSS vulnerabilities every month, which aren’t possible outside the browser environment.

    • Mannivu@feddit.itEnglish
      71·
      11 months ago

      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.

      • SuperSpruce@lemmy.mlEnglish
        0·
        11 months ago

        I’ve had assignments that involve editing a PDF template. So far, LibreOffice Draw has worked for me.

      • baseless_discourse@mander.xyzEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        You can just sign using your mouse/trackpad, and then copy and paste the signature to fill in the entire form.

        • Natanael@slrpnk.netEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          This doesn’t cover digital signatures (cryptographic signatures with RSA/ECDSA)

    • Lianodel@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      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.

  • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
    69·
    11 months ago

    I swear by SumatraPDF. The most lightweight reader I ever used. Opens in seconds, is tiny in size, comes with zero bloat.

  • jon@lemmy.tfEnglish
    421·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      Free (As in beer and speech!)

      Do you live in a utopia where you get as much beer as you want without having to pay for it, or do you live in a dystopia where you have to pay to be able to speak your mind and only in limited quantities?

      • TOR-anon1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        11 months ago

        I live in mixed world where companies are making proprietary software and paywalling everything. Yet, there’s independent open source programs where I can get a copy, share, and expand as I want without worring about legal issues.

        Free as in beer means I got a beer for free (gratis, “No Price”), whereas speech is I can say what I want (without being silenced).*

        In this context, Okular is a free (As in price) and free (As in libre software). I can copy, share, modify, and share modification as I please. There is no subscription, paywall, or proprietary licsense that prohibits this.

        • = This may be inaccurate, wrong, misleading, and varying amoung countries and states.
  • muelltonne@feddit.deEnglish
    35·
    11 months ago

    One of the biggest problems with this AI-spam in every app is that there is no workable business model. You can’t run the AI locally on most end user computers. And running it in the cloud or via OpenAI API is expensive and won’t work in the long term. So you’re looking at another one of those stupid subscriptions, but who really wants to pay monthly for his PDF reader so he can ask it questions?

    • Moonrise2473@feddit.itOPEnglish
      131·
      11 months ago

      i need n-up, booklet, zoom control, a preview and batch printing. Sumatra PDF just invokes the standard barebones print dialog with no extra frills. It’s ok for viewing but not for printing

    • Albbi@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      11 months ago

      I moved to Sumatra from Foxit years ago. No idea what Foxit did anymore to make me change, but this just confirms that decision.

  • regdog@lemmy.worldEnglish
    321·
    11 months ago

    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.

  • doctorcrimson@lemmy.todayEnglish
    29·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • richie510@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      I just want to comment to push this comment higher. On a PC, the answer is usually Firefox.

  • dee_dubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    11 months ago

    I never had that floating over the document I was viewing, just in the home tab of the menu, but I did find a way to switch it off. ‘File > Preferences > General’ has an option to ‘disable all features which require an internet connection’. There are also options in there to disable that opening splash screen if you don’t want that.

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.eeEnglish
    211·
    11 months ago

    I kinda just use Firefox’s pdf editing tools. I don’t need anything complicated, signatures, text editing, and highlighting is all I need.

  • Holzkohlen@feddit.deEnglish
    18·
    11 months ago

    I know it’s kind of a meme to call some software bloated, but foxit reader is bloated AF

  • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
    18·
    11 months ago

    It seems like you are using Windows. I think SumatraPDF is still good on Windows.