Hi Hraban, > Unfortunately, Firefox doesn’t register itself as a PDF viewer (at least > on MacOS), that means I can’t use it easily to open a PDF from the > command line (e.g. in scripts).
That's odd. You can set it as the default PDF viewer on Windows and Linux at least. > >> for forms: > >> - fill in > > Yes. > > Just checked again with current Firefox: It doesn’t work with all of my > test files. I tested it with the eforms manual: http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/acrotex/doc/eformman.pdf and it seems to work fine for me. I've also used it to fill out a few government forms in the past and it's worked too. Unfortunately, I think that there are like 12 incompatible ways of making a form in PDF, so support probably heavily depends on how the document was made. > >> - print documents with/without form contents > > Yes. > > I couldn’t find an option to print without form contents. (But usually > you would want filled forms, so “with” is ok.) Well if you refresh the page, you can delete everything that you've filled in :) > >> - custom checkmarks/radiobuttons should work & display correctly > > > > Usually it works, sometimes it doesn't. > > > >> - JS for calculations > > > > Usually it works, sometimes it doesn't. > > Need to check further... I checked with the eforms manual linked above. Check marks and radio buttons seem to work, but calculations don't. > >> for annotations (correction workflow; generally just nice to have): > >> - similar to Adobe/Foxit Reader > > > > Reading annotations works, but you can't modify anything. > > Ok. There’s still no PDF viewer on Linux that can handle annotations > well. (But even Acrobat Reader on MacOS frequently crashes on them; I’m > using Foxit Reader for annotations, but the one for Linux is too old.) Microsoft Edge has decent PDF annotation support. I've never tested it on Linux, but a Linux version does exist. Okular also lets you add some annotations. > > I've been using pdf.js almost exclusively for the past few years either > > via Firefox or VS Code, and I've never really had any problems. The only > > real issue that I've had is that it gets fairly slow with documents over > > a few thousand pages long. Otherwise, it seems pretty fast and stable, > > and it supports nearly every feature that I tend to need. > > Well, documents with thousands of pages are probably unreliable/slow in > most viewers. I've got a 1.1GB document with 16000 pages, and Okular handles it just as fast as a 10 page document. Firefox at least manages to not crash when opening the document, which is better than most viewers. Okular is actually a pretty nice viewer in general. It's really fast, and it also seems to support most of these features. The tricky thing with it though is that I think that it would be much harder to modify compared to pdf.js. -- Max ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : https://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
