On 11/10/2026 07:09, [email protected] wrote:
On Sun, Oct 11, 2026 at 12:45:14AM +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
On 10/10/2026 21:49, songbird wrote:
thanks to those who have replied, i'm just back to
this project to see if i can make any headway easily
enough or if i should just delete the message and get
on with life. :)
songbird
Coming late to the party: I generally save the PDF and then open it with a
text editor. It's not the easiest to work with, but it's safe.
I don't think so, no more than a PDF viewer (heck, even pdftotext links to
libpoppler, so I guess everything these days is as (un)safe as libpoppler
is).
Something has to convert the PDF structure (i.e. "interpret" it) for your
text editor to understand it. On top, you add your editor's vulnerabilities.
I think we are at cross purposes. I don't want to open (interpret) the
pdf: I just want to see what it contains for the sake of interest.
Peter HB
