Foxit on the run
Sweet!
Foxit PDF Reader is well and truly foxed up, but vendor won't patch
The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) has gone public with a Foxit PDF Reader vulnerability without a fix, because the vendor resisted patching. The ZDI made the decision last week that the two vulns, CVE-2017-10951 and CVE-2017-10952, warranted release so at least some of Foxit's 400 million users could protect themselves. In both …
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Monday 21st August 2017 05:34 GMT bombastic bob
Re: Foxit on the run
"Sweet!"
you get a magic cookie for that one! And a 'Wink'.
on a related note, I used to be a fan of evince until it STARTED! LOOKING! 2D FLATSO! and the gnome devs arrogantly told me to pack sand when I complained about it.
So *NOW* I'm a fan of the Mate fork, 'Atril'. Aside from a minor bug, it's pretty good.
Who needs 'Foxit' when you have SO MANY other PDF readers. FREE ones, without spyware, ads, or other irritations like NAGGING! YOU! TO! LOG! IN! like stupid Adobe crap-reader does now.
and WITHOUT! ".NOT"! IN! THEM! I might add...
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Monday 21st August 2017 14:35 GMT GBE
Re: Foxit on the run
I gave up on evince a year or two back because of various UI issues and the whole screw-you-if-you're-not-running-Gnome attitude. I've been using atril as my default PDF viewer ever since and the only think it's missing is the 'print current view' feature that acroread had. Fortunately, I found PDFStudio and can use that when I need to print a portion of a page.
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Monday 21st August 2017 08:15 GMT VinceH
Re: Suggestions for replacement?
"SumatraPDF - use it for years"
SecondedThirded* - I've also been using it for a good few years.I do occasionally receive PDFs from one source that it can't open, but whenever I get one of those I import it into Xara Photo & Graphic Designer (or whatever they've chosen to call it this month).
* I read Pascal Monett's comment after first posting this one.
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Thursday 24th August 2017 13:36 GMT H in The Hague
Re: Suggestions for replacement?
Thanks for the tip! Very happy with Sumatra.
Incidentally, if you happen to use Abby OCR software their ABBYY FineReader 14 program is also a useful PDF reader and editor. Its search function is particularly convenient as it displays all hits (unlike Acrobat and Sumatra). (Not to be confused with the accompanying ABBYY FineReader 14 OCR Editor, which is for tricky OCR jobs only.)
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Monday 21st August 2017 16:06 GMT Geoffrey W
Re: Suggestions for replacement?
RE: "So way better than Adobe's PDF Reader then"
I must have tried millions of PDF viewers on Android, some multiple times after they were updated, and Adobes Android PDF viewer is the only one I can live with and that does Exactly what I want. Wouldn't touch it on Windows.
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Monday 21st August 2017 06:54 GMT Digitall
Alternatives/ Replacement
Used Foxit pdf reader within the previous decade for a bit which inevitably turned into bloatware and was dropped much like Adobe Reader years prior to that.
@ Iglethal: Not necessarily the best pdf reader but, PDF-XChange Viewer works well.
https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer
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Monday 21st August 2017 07:40 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Alternatives/ Replacement
Having grown weary of the bloated monster that Acrobat has become, I decided to install an alternative on a new PC.
Yesterday I installed Foxit. Today I shall be uninstalling it. *sigh*
I'll give Sumatra a go, once I turn down the brightness on my monitor. I hope the app is friendlier on the eye than their website.
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Monday 21st August 2017 12:20 GMT Anonymous IV
Re: Alternatives/ Replacement
> I'll give Sumatra a go, once I turn down the brightness on my monitor. I hope the app is friendlier on the eye than their website.
If you want to change the lurid yellow background to a friendly pale blue, add the -bg-color parameter after the executable in your icon Properties, such as:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\SumatraPDF\SumatraPDF.exe" -bg-color 0xF0F8FF
"Your 0xRRGGBB value may vary."
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Monday 21st August 2017 12:08 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Alternatives/ Replacement: Tracker Software PDF-Xchange viewer
As others have recommended.
It's served my needs for many years now, with no problems here, costs me nothing either. Don't understand why it is rarely mentioned.
Even includes OCR which meets my needs too.
Let's get Foxit on the run:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRv7EjjwYBI
Have a look. What could possibly go wro
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Monday 21st August 2017 09:10 GMT theModge
Re: Uninstalled immediately
I'd been holding off doing this because of the bloat, since some of the extra functions are actually quite handy but....this has pushed me over the edge. I've had SumatraPDF installed for ages, so it only needed me to uninstall Foxit and set Sumatra as the default.
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Monday 21st August 2017 23:44 GMT Adam 1
Re: dropped it a few years back
Worse. I actually enjoyed your joke, but I think there is a fundamental difference between adware, creepy tracky browsers and something that silently scans your PC to see what is installed, changes your homepage/desktop/toolbars as it sees fit. In one case it is the price* they are asking to use the software. In the other, they are not upfront.
*Whether that price represents good value is left as a judgement call on the reader.
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Monday 21st August 2017 10:19 GMT brotherelf
Only, they're patching after all, and have been saying so since about Saturday…
"Foxit Software is deeply committed to delivering secure PDF products to its customers. Our track record is strong in responding quickly in fixing vulnerabilities. We are currently working to rapidly address the two vulnerabilities reported on the Zero Day Initiative blog and will quickly deliver software improvements. In the meantime, users can help protect themselves by using the Safe Reading Mode. We apologize for our initial miscommunication when contacted about these vulnerabilities and are making changes to our procedures to mitigate the probability of it occurring again."
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