<story><title>Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root on macOS Silently</title><url>https://rekken.github.io/2020/05/14/Security-Flaws-in-Adobe-Acrobat-Reader-Allow-Malicious-Program-to-Gain-Root-on-macOS-Silently/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>The good news is, unlike Windows, macOS has a fantastic default PDF viewer (&amp;quot;Preview&amp;quot;) and I don&amp;#x27;t know why anyone would ever install Acrobat on it</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mfer</author><text>Preview has issues with PDFs with form fields right now. It causes a bunch of people to need to install Acrobat for that use case. :(</text></comment>
<story><title>Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root on macOS Silently</title><url>https://rekken.github.io/2020/05/14/Security-Flaws-in-Adobe-Acrobat-Reader-Allow-Malicious-Program-to-Gain-Root-on-macOS-Silently/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_bxg1</author><text>The good news is, unlike Windows, macOS has a fantastic default PDF viewer (&amp;quot;Preview&amp;quot;) and I don&amp;#x27;t know why anyone would ever install Acrobat on it</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reaperducer</author><text>&lt;i&gt;The good news is, unlike Windows, macOS has a fantastic default PDF viewer (&amp;quot;Preview&amp;quot;) and I don&amp;#x27;t know why anyone would ever install Acrobat on it&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I, too, prefer Preview to Acrobat.  But part of my workflow occasionally involves copying text from a PDF to create a web page.  Preview cannot be counted on to reliably or accurately copy that text.  It seems to have particular problems with the letter &amp;quot;f&amp;quot; when next to a letter &amp;quot;s,&amp;quot; in addition to other flaws.&lt;p&gt;Acrobat, on the other hand, always copies the text correctly.&lt;p&gt;Aside from this one use, however, I always employ Preview because otherwise it is far superior.</text></comment>