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usonian

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1. I have never used Acrobat Reader, not Adobe anything, for decades.

Reply to justaprogressive (Original post)

Thu Apr 9, 2026, 12:50 PM

Thursday

I have not heard of an exploit of Apple's Preview app, the default PDF reader, and have lately switched to Highlights app (mac and windows) https://highlightsapp.net/ I use the free version, not freemium.

Main reason? DARK MODE!!!
Everything else is gravy

No known exploits in either of these.
And there are other, fancier PDF handling apps with advanced annotation and note taking.
Overkill for me.

And (gripe of the century) why doesn't some OS handle epub natively?
It's actually a very simple format. PDF is a programming language (Postscript) and javascript seems to have snuk in over the years. KEEP IT SIMPLE. (I guess people entirely forgot that).

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