Hi there, curious about the subject however I am not willing to download a pdf, as per recent revelations that adobe pdf has become a hacking vector. Any ability to add a url for web based content?
No need to download to anything other than localstorage.
There have been a half dozen vulnerabilities found in the Firefox extension code exploitable through PDF.js over the years, but this is a far better record than the hundreds of vulnerabilities identified in Acrobat Reader.
PDF.js does a lot less than Acrobat. It's much more focused on just displaying articles, and less about rich media interactions like embedding 3D models, Flash, videos, etc. in the PDF.
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Hi there, curious about the subject however I am not willing to download a pdf, as per recent revelations that adobe pdf has become a hacking vector. Any ability to add a url for web based content?
Firefox has included a viewer based on PDF.js since 2013:
https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js#online-demo
No need to download to anything other than localstorage.
There have been a half dozen vulnerabilities found in the Firefox extension code exploitable through PDF.js over the years, but this is a far better record than the hundreds of vulnerabilities identified in Acrobat Reader.
PDF.js does a lot less than Acrobat. It's much more focused on just displaying articles, and less about rich media interactions like embedding 3D models, Flash, videos, etc. in the PDF.
Very much appreciate you pointing this out. Do you know if I can use this to embed a pdf in a personal website. a resume for example?
Have you looked into different PDF readers? There's more than just Adobe Acrobat. Your browser might have its own PDF reader.
Not aware of other more secure readers. Suggestions welcome.
This PDF is simply a compilation of scanned images, and didn't hack me hardly at all.