Comments on: I Still Use Foxit Reader

By: Raptor

Raptor — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:02:44 +0000

I use STDU Viewer (http://www.stdutility.com) and very happy.

By: A Very Brief History of Foxit Reader and JavaScript « Didier Stevens

A Very Brief History of Foxit Reader and JavaScript « Didier Stevens — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:45:06 +0000

[...] Version 2.2 and 2.3 didn’t change this, that’s what prompted me to publish a hack to disable JavaScript. [...]

By: D.E. Null

D.E. Null — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 02:57:10 +0000

Perhaps even more important than PDF’s use in “business” is its use in “academia”. Consider the number of PDF’s produced by academic journals.
If one is faced with having to read many PDF’s in succession for their informational content (cf. using a PDF as a web form), I have found the programs ‘sumatra pdf’ and ‘pdftohtml’ piped to lynx -dump as safer and faster alternatives to Acrobat Reader, and Foxit Reader, if one wants to read from the computer monitor.

That said, PDF woes aside, your memory hack alone is impressive in its own right!

By: Didier Stevens

Didier Stevens — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:08:13 +0000

JavaScript has a business reason in PDF documents, PDF is not only used for static content. Order forms are a popular application of PDF, and often contain JavaScript to calculate the total amount due and sales tax/VAT.

By: Ryan Fox

Ryan Fox — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:46:47 +0000

Ridiculous! Javascript has no business being in a PDF.

By: Didier Stevens

Didier Stevens — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:03:30 +0000

I think the Adobe Customization Wizard is what you’re looking for: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3564

By: James_A

James_A — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:30:34 +0000

You say:
“But in a corporate environment, you can also set the appropriate registry keys to block all these actions by default.”

Could you please point me towards further information (or a list) of the registry keys that block these actions?

James_A

By: Yogesh Amberkar

Yogesh Amberkar — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:26:17 +0000

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