A Firefox PDF plugin XSS vulnerability

Posted Jan 11, 2007 17:29 UTC (Thu) by endecotp (guest, #36428)
In reply to: A Firefox PDF plugin XSS vulnerability by jwb
Parent article: A Firefox PDF plugin XSS vulnerability

In your examples, the line art is anti-aliased in Acroread but not in Evince, and I think that the fonts are hinted in Acroread but not in Evince. These examples are consistent with what I've seen: you need to zoom in one or two more steps with xpdf to see the same amount of detail that you'd see in the Adobe product.

The anti-aliasing issue should be fixable - plenty of OSS graphics libraries can already do this. Getting the font rendering right is also possible - for example FreeType2 can do hinting - but it is patent-encumbered.