Comment on My PDF reader REALLY HAD to add a permanent "AI assistant" button that floats on every single file i open

sunbeam60@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• bfg9k@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I just use Firefox to open pdfs. If I have to sign it I’ll just use an online signer.

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  • sunbeam60@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I do the same, except jump to adobe reader if I have to sign. But come on, this doesn’t satisfies either of us.

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  • meliaesc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’re fine uploading those documents online to some random website?

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• emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As a Linux user, I was rather surprised to learn that Windows doesn’t have a good pdf viewer. (Sumatra was the closest I could get.) Scientific software I can understand, but pdf viewer? Wtf?

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  • FrenLivesMatter@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m on Windows 11 and it opens PDF files in Edge by default. While I find it kind of silly to use a web browser for that purpose, the built-in PDF reader is actually fairly good, it can even read your documents out loud using text-to-speech.

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    • sunbeam60@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Edge’s reader is decent I agree. But in what kind of bizarro world do one use a browser to read PDFs.

      It pains me to say, but this is one area where Apple beats everyone. Their default PDF reader can do a LOT, it’s free, it’s already there and crucially it’s lightweight and not bogged down with shitty functionality no one needs, nor bristling with upsell towards premium features.

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      • FrenLivesMatter@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Indeed, Preview really is excellent. Does almost everything you need and nothing you don’t.

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