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Adobe Putting PDF Reader In a Sandbox
Captain Eloquence writes "The next major version of Adobe's PDF Reader will feature new sandboxing technology aimed at curbing a surge in malicious hacker attacks. The initial sandbox implementation will isolate all 'write' calls on Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2003. Adobe security chief Brad Arkin believes this will mitigate the risk of exploits seeking to install malware on the user's computer or otherwise change the computer's file system or registry. In a future dot-release, the company plans to extend the sandbox to include read-only activities to protect against attackers seeking to read sensitive information from the user's computer."
Probably editing and note taking. I draw on PDFs all the time, and I'm glad I'm able to save the edits.
Many people need it. There are plugins and workflows that use Acrobat in many different businesses, and most small/medium businesses couldn't afford to have alternatives written for them, and have to stick to the commercial offerings. For me specifically, I send clients PDF proofs of printing orders, and any reader other than Acrobat can't be relied upon to be accurate enough for proofing purposes: they usually mess up transparencies, fonts, and other critical information.
Sure there are free pdf readers that work on Linux and 64 bit, but I find that none of them are as flexible with regards to printing options as Acrobat is.
And the last time I installed multi-libraries on my system supporting both 32 and 64 bit, primarily just so I could use Acrobat, I started having some stability issues that I would just as soon not repeat.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Signing documents, adding notes, adding addendum, filling out forms, etc. There is more to PDF's then text.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Again, where's Windows' equivalent of Apparmor or SELinux?
Well, since I've never worked with those products, you don't seem to be interested at all in explaining what the holy fuck they do, and since I'm not telepathic, I can't answer that question.
Perhaps there is one that I'm not aware of,
Not aware of? It was posted IN THIS THREAD LIKE 3 POSTS UP! Seriously, WTF is wrong with you. IIRC, you yourself picked it apart based on a fucking typo (sudo instead of su).
You're being purposefully dense to make some point about your fucking pet software you won't bother to explain. Stop it. It's pissing me off.
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Windows doesn't support ICC profiles for printers and ICM profiles for monitors that can be calibrated with any number of tools? No color management at all huh?
"Operating system level
Since 1997 color management in Windows is handled at the OS level through an ICC color management system. Beginning with Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced a new color architecture known as Windows Color System.[5] WCS supplements the Image Color Management (ICM) system in Windows 2000 and Windows XP, originally written by Heidelberg.[6][7]
Apple's Mac operating systems have provided OS-level color management since 1993, through ColorSync.
Operating systems which use the X Window System for graphics use ICC profiles, and support for color management on Linux, still less mature than on other platforms, is coordinated through OpenICC at freedesktop.org and makes use of LittleCMS."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_management
Its trivial to create a pretty standardized pdf as well. Just flatten everything and save as a version 5 or 6 pdf and most anything worth its salt will render it correctly.
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