Most people around Voat are sketchy about PDFs, but if you go to http://archive.is you can find just about all of our pages archived there. You can access screenshots and view it by proxy without ever having to set up a proxy. If there's enough demand for PDFs I can do that, I just figure it's not something most users would appreciate.
I guess the fear is about the "phone home" features that can be implemented in PDFs. Danger can be avoided or minimized by using simple PDF readers that don't support Java scripts. Though I understand that you don't want to implement it if the majority doesn't like the idea. Anyway, congrats in the Wiki, it looks good.
Nah not really necessary atm. I'm just a fan of PDFs and I like to read things offline. I was merely thinking about a feature like on Wikipedia that allows you to download pages in PDF form. Though, idk if they open sourced it for other people to use. Maybe I'll rewrite your Wiki ( if you allow me ofc) in LaTeX once I have some more time.
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spacebob ago
Are the wiki pages available in pdf format?
RebelSkum ago
Most people around Voat are sketchy about PDFs, but if you go to http://archive.is you can find just about all of our pages archived there. You can access screenshots and view it by proxy without ever having to set up a proxy. If there's enough demand for PDFs I can do that, I just figure it's not something most users would appreciate.
spacebob ago
I guess the fear is about the "phone home" features that can be implemented in PDFs. Danger can be avoided or minimized by using simple PDF readers that don't support Java scripts. Though I understand that you don't want to implement it if the majority doesn't like the idea. Anyway, congrats in the Wiki, it looks good.
RebelSkum ago
Thank you kindly! I can see about making PDFs of certain pages if you want any specifically
spacebob ago
Nah not really necessary atm. I'm just a fan of PDFs and I like to read things offline. I was merely thinking about a feature like on Wikipedia that allows you to download pages in PDF form. Though, idk if they open sourced it for other people to use. Maybe I'll rewrite your Wiki ( if you allow me ofc) in LaTeX once I have some more time.