Forgive me for this stupid question. I just transitioned from iPhone to Pixel (GrapheneOS) and I’m curious why there isn’t a built in PDF viewer like on iPhone? It feels like you have to open things externally pretty often, but I figure there’s a reason for that. I haven’t used Android in many years and I recently developed an interest for the technical aspects of things, so again, do forgive this beginners question.

Cheers y’all!

    • mad_asshatter@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      It was a long and expensive battle just to keep “pdf” as “open” (lol) as it already is.

      There are a million legacy reasons why Adobe, MS, IBM, Meta, Alphabet, are loathed, but here we are…

    • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Pdf has a mind-bogging array of features, which make it so entrenched in the corporate world with no viable replacements at the moment. Things like forms where users can fill them out and submit (surprisingly a popular feature), cryptographic signing to prevent tampering, DRM, etc. Heck, I think you can even add JavaScript code to a pdf.

      • JASN_DE@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        forms where users can fill them out and submit (surprisingly a popular feature)

        How is that surprising?