I briefly looked at running Javascript inside PDF a couple of years ago - I think this is possible under the spec, but no major renderers allow it.
Could be wrong.
Could be wrong.
A calculator:
https://pspdfkit.com/images/blog/2018/how-to-program-a-calcu...
A game of breakout:
https://github.com/osnr/horrifying-pdf-experiments/raw/maste...
The PDF specification is hundreds of pages.
I'm wondering if having a PDF that would have data that could self-update if there's an internet connection.
Anyone wanna collaborate on something like this?
I wonder if having a PDF like this that showed you how your stocks of choice are doing would be interesting.
That it's more portable? It's more document-like/printable?
Very cool, but a bit concerning at the same time. I have vivid memories of Flash exploitations and all the malware that came with it. I know we've moved on since then, but I still don't see any reason to allow dynamic content in a page layout format.
The second one is an empty page. I suppose it needs to do some initialization first in order to show the page.
Thank goodness, though I suppose you could take the position that you already have a full programming language in your document so how could this be worse? Though the idea of distributing node with all my documents seems a bit hairy.