On 2018-08-29 18:42, Knurpht-openSUSE wrote:
Op donderdag 30 augustus 2018 00:11:53 CEST schreef don fisher:
Please direct your comments to Adobe. They were the ones to decide Reader for linux was dead. Since it's closed source, how could openSUSE do something about that. @All: Why here? To have openSUSE fix all security holes and then run Reader, which is a siff when concerning security. In Reader it's possible to enclose code in a PDF and execute it. Is that what we're waiting for? Please, please, please bother Adobe, your government and so on. Would I declare my taxes through Reader? No, I'd rather use a ballpoint and printed form. Even Spanish jurisdiction should allow me, according to EU rules.
Having PDFs with javascript code is not much different from browsing web pages that run javascript code, and most of them do. Rather, the browsers take care of handling javascript securely. I would rather use an open source Linux PDF reader with javascript support than use Adobe's. The code may do things like calculate results and fill fields, or verify that the selections made in the form are consistent and the form will not be rejected after submission. The alternative, which Spanish income tax system uses, is that we now can only fill them online connected to a government web site (which works fine in Linux). -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.0 (Legolas)) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org