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[Victor Odhner]

der.hans wrote:

> Why I don't want to use acroread:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/129729/
> http://www.daube.ch/share/win14.html

Thanks for this - I was not aware that AcroRead had JavaScript
capability. It's now turned off.

If AcroRead tried to phone home under Windows, ZoneAlarm
would block it. I came to take this for granted, and it hadn't
occurred to me that I lack this protection now that I'm under Linux
almost all the time. Is there a tool available under Linux that offers
a comparable check on which applications are connecting to the
Net, and whether those apps have been modified?

I have not found another PDF reader that works well at all --
AcroRead seems to be alone in the field. The one that was the
default for my CentOS/KDE system did not operate as smoothly as
AcroRead, did not offer text searching, did not respect "landscape"
settings, and could not align a document onto a printed page.
(AcroRead also misaligns the printed image, but only by a little bit.)

Hans, what was the point of the second link, about plugins?
Beyond the JavaScript thing, I did not spot anything that seemed
objectionable from a privacy point of view. What did I miss?
Or was there some other kind of issue?

Vic