Edge, Chrome, and Firefox all have built-in PDF readers. macOS's built-in Preview app can read PDFs. Just counting those four solutions, most users already have at least two PDF readers on their computer without installing Acrobat, Nitro, Foxit, or whatever.
Stop installing dedicated apps for reading PDFs! They are bloatware meant to encourage users to buy PDF editors which most will never need!
You know how some people make websites? Well, what if instead of a website, we make a pdf that you can upload a document to and then click a submit button in the pdf. And for good measure, lets make it so it only works in Adobe Reader's internet explorer plugin.
Welcome to the Bank Secrecy Act e-filing system brought to you by the united states department of treasury.
- Highlight
- Leave expandable comments
- See the page thumbnails
- Have access to area select/table select
- Configure my pdf reader quite a bit
I spend a lot of time reading .pdfs because I'm in grad school right now. Using Okular is way more convenient than trying to use browsers. This is not a strange use case at all, many people who frequently read .pdfs have the same needs.
And it's clearly not trying to sell me on a pdf editor, because it's not related to a paid editor. Or at least I'm not aware of it, either way is fine by me.
https://www.liquidtext.net/liquidtextadeeperdive
(To a sibling comment, just stop using MacOS: it's not a rule, but the usability and craftsmanship sensibilities that create software like LiquidText tend to cluster with the usability and craftsmanship sensibilities that appreciate MacOS.)
I was really hoping to find a good application for reading & annotating PDFs on Linux behind this link.
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Whether that preference will get changed back to edge in a feature update is another story.
It's also Free software & respects data/privacy.
Don't like KDE-based software? How about Evince, Skim, Xpdf, gv...
I say, stop moving everything to the web browser!
Actually... stop using OS X altogether. The infamous High Sierra root-login vulnerability is harrowing enough and I'm gobsmacked as to why folks didn't abandon Apple at that point.
I've been happy, gainfully employed, and quite successful in all ventures using Debian + free software, exclusively, for nearly 8 years. I'm not the only one. Happy to help anyone migrate should they have challenges!
Obviously those are all readers, so they are not able to edit PDFs or create them from scratch. However, neither can Adobe Acrobat Reader or most free PDF bloatware.