We live in the real world. If you don’t submit the government forms how they want you to, they shrug and fine the shit out of you.

Then you just don’t know the law. There is no legislation that enforces Acrobat in any civilized country without alternative.

Quite the opposite: Send macroridden documents to any decently secure infrastructure and you get a big fat warning in the subject if it’s not filtered entirely. Officials LOVE to do that extra call ensuring that this document is really from you before opening it and no phishing attempt…not.

Source: working >25 years in IT, >15 years for government IT

EDIT: we got some real Adobe Acrobat Fanboy here, eh? ;-)

Gut, wenn man ein Ersatzteil für das Modell braucht.

Der Preis allerdings…

Dafür nehme ich pdftotext (glaube Teil von poppler).

Aber für dich wäre es vermutlich schlauer über debug modus, /proc/…/cmdline oder quellcode die settings für tesseract rauszufinden, die pdfsandwich verwendet, damit du dein frontend entsprechen konfigurieren kannst.

pdfsandwich macht das recht zuverlässig und benutzt intern auch tesseract. Vermutlich mit besseren Parametern.

Genau so wirds passieren. Kernelentwicklung is teuer und schwer. Und jeder, der mal MS Kernelcode gesehen hat, kriegt PTBS.

Die Entwicklung ist mit winget, WSL und WSA in vollem Gange. Ein kaputtgepatchter Linux Kernel ist da der nächste logische Schritt.

if mastodon is a federated twitter clone, what else is lemmy than a federated reddit clone?

Dopamine reward loops, good content and a reasonable UX.

• If you gave a good, detailed answer with sources, you got rewarded for your effort with upvotes more than a low effort answer. This kind of appreciation motivated quality content generators to generate more content.

• as usercount grew to a certain threshold, you basically got users from all sorts of domains generating quality content covering pretty much all topics

• while official UX was horrible and 3rd party apps were needed, the basic system of sorting and indendation of answers allowed for long, detailed discussions which could be navigated and followed effortlessly.

how they would drain it.

Since a lot of land is below sea level, the Netherlands basically dry pump their country all the time anyway.

The world loves dutch pragmatism. “You don’t want this? Well, fuck it. We just do it that way then. Everyone happy? Fine. Done.”

Germans could learn a thing or two…

At least I hope you’re not.

Of course I do and I expect my employees to report such incidents to IT. Such documents are common attack vectors.

In my experience, customers are not aware of failing interoperability or possible security threats and often grateful for such hints.

There’s a reason why libreoffice (and I guess other office suits aswell), evince or antivirus show a big, fat warning when opening such documents. Surely there are cases were macros are useful or necessary, but if they have to leave the company, you’re doing it wrong.

This talk might be interesting for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F2xMw3987I

Sorry for being unclear, I was talking about screen projection. For actual visualization.

How does projection work in your field? X, Y, Z get converted to X, Z and 2D screen planars have no Y axis?

Who invented this, why did she do it and where to send my official letter of complaint?

Formulars, such as calculating a sum based on the preceding fields.

• Field formatting, such as appending .00 to a currency amount

You’re doing it wrong. PDF with embedded javascript is a nightmare and it still doesn’t make PDF equal to excel.

Better generate your documents with your favourite HTML templating engine from your DB and convert them to simple PDF in the last step.

LibreOffice notoriously renders Microsoft Office documents incorrectly in my experience.

Only had that experience with badly designed, macro ridden documents which there’s no excuse for anyway nowadays. I use a lot of print templates (various label printers) and it works flawlessly.

Also, exporting a non MS file format usually imports fine in LibreOffice, even with complex documents.

The ability to quickly edit PDF makes it the office suite of my choice.