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
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.
I just want to comment to push this comment higher. On a PC, the answer is usually Firefox.
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.
Maybe use Sumatra PDF instead?
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
Doesn’t the standard print dialogue have the option to just make X copies or is that not the same as batch printing?
no i mean open 50 PDF files and print them with a single click
Oooh, yeah. That’s not quite the same.
Nitro Reader has a lot of features too.
I moved to Sumatra from Foxit years ago. No idea what Foxit did anymore to make me change, but this just confirms that decision.
This is the way.
I still use Foxit 9.72 on my pc (which I don’t have open ATM, so I can’t check to be certain I gave the right version). I have tried newer versions, but there always was some kind of enshittyfication change that annoyed me and I always reverted back to that last good version.
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.
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.
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.
FoxIt is Chinese. If you don’t care about your data potentially being transmitted across the globe, it’s a well working software.
Firefox added a decent signing feature. idk bout batch editing tho
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.
But be warned; pdfjs has a bunch of XSS vulnerabilities every month, which aren’t possible outside the browser environment.
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.
yes! it fixed it
thanks
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 kinda just use Firefox’s pdf editing tools. I don’t need anything complicated, signatures, text editing, and highlighting is all I need.
Wait, can I sign a PDF contract using Firefox?
I think it depends on the exact signing method used, but you can annotate documents with the mouse, which is what a lot of “signed” PDFs come down to.
If you’re dealing with digital signatures or Adobe specific implementations, then no. Firefox does form editing and it does annotation, but for more advanced editing you’ll need something else.
Yeah and if you need Adobe’s proprietary editing tools then Foxit won’t have them anyways.
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…
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.
I’ve gotten so used to being able to just use the zapper in ublock origin that I forget that in apps outside of the web browser you can’t just get rid of unwanted bits of the UI. That sucks man.
Use SumatraPDF or Okular
Another good option on Windows is PDF XChange Editor, though I’m using an old version so I can’t vouch for how much or little enshitification has happened in newer versions
This has been my favourite for pdfs so far, really easy to use. Wish there was an app version.
An adblocker that allows you to select and remove elements can be critical in helping to declutter websites, including those annoying floating windows.
