Hacker News Reader

Correct. I wasn't clear, so let me clarify: I regard every PDF I read as a static document. That's how I see them and that's how I read them, with readers that treat them as static. I have no use for a PDF document that wants to acts as software and I wouldn't use a bug-nest of a piece of software to run it.

View on HN

You're not the target market for those types of PDF's then. In large corporate environments, PDF's are roughly the equivalent of small web-apps that handle a lot of the data entry and sharing across the organization.

I'm not a proponent of this approach, but it is what it is and it is the reason that Reader is such a bloated security-ridden nightmare.

Then those features should only be enabled by default in corporate versions of Adobe Reader. Average internet users have very little use for non-static PDFs, except the occasional "fill out this form" PDFs where you can't save any changes.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com