Microsoft Edge can't numbers
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"This currently unknown issue scrambles digits in a PDF document. For example, a simple sequence like “123456” will be replaced by “114447.” See image above for a visual representation of the issue.
To make matters worse, Edge is also the default application for viewing (and indirectly printing) PDF documents on Windows 10.
The person who reported the problem says he reproduced the bug on Microsoft Edge 38.14393.1066.0 running the Microsoft EdgeHTML engine 14.14393, but also on Microsoft Edge 40.15063 running EdgeHTML 15.15063.
The issue does not affect scanned documents in PDF form (which are basically like compressed images), but native and interactive PDF files only."
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@El_Heffe said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
currently unknown
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@Karla said in Mixcrosoft Edge can't numbers:
@El_Heffe said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
currently unknown
i think that's supposed to mean that "we know what the issue does, we just don't know what's causing it"
which is still a silly thing to say but at least it parses.
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@accalia said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
@Karla said in Mixcrosoft Edge can't numbers:
@El_Heffe said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
currently unknown
i think that's supposed to mean that "we know what the issue does, we just don't know what's causing it"
which is still a silly thing to say but at least it parses.
Yeah, just reads funny.
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@El_Heffe said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
scrambles digits in a PDF document
Apparently not just digits, but also the text (if the images in that article are accurate). For example, look at the text in the orange boxes in that article.
STA RST RST RST CHR
does not look likeSTA GRS RST TRG CHR
to me, and it isn't the only garbled bit…
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Maybe they should scan the printed document back in with a Xerox scanner
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@hungrier Maybe they should stop trying to code a browser and just build one on top of Webkit or Blink
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@TimeBandit said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
@hungrier Maybe they should stop trying to code a browser and just build one on top of Webkit or Blink
It's about pdfs.
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I'm pretty sure HTML documents can already do this on purpose. You can probably exploit it for all kind of shenanigans.
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@anonymous234 you're talking about
@media
rules? Yeah, but that's completely different. This isn't on purpose.
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@TimeBandit The engine is not that bad, the problem is that it's tied to that lame browser.
Although... I guess anyone could build a better interface around the same engine.
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@kt_ said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
It's about pdfs.
So, they can't code a PDF renderer worth shit.
They should just fork an open source one
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@TimeBandit said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
So, they can't code
a PDF rendererworth shit.@TimeBandit said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
Maybe they should stop trying to code
a browser and just build one on top of Webkit or BlinkYou were so close.
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@TimeBandit said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
@kt_ said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
It's about pdfs.
So, they can't code a PDF renderer worth shit.
They should just fork an open source oneMaybe they should open source windows, while at it?
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@kt_ said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
Maybe they should open source windows, while at it?
Definitely not. It's already shitty enough
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@TimeBandit said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
@kt_ said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
It's about pdfs.
So, they can't code a PDF renderer worth shit.
They should just fork an open source oneCareful, you'll trigger @blakeyrat ...
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@hungrier said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
Maybe they should scan the printed document back in with a Xerox scanner
Maybe they should take a picture of it on a wooden table
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@El_Heffe said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
The person who reported the problem says he reproduced the bug on Microsoft Edge 38.14393.1066.0 running the Microsoft EdgeHTML engine 14.14393, but also on Microsoft Edge 40.15063 running EdgeHTML 15.15063.
Is he sure those are the right version numbers...?
I liked this, from one of the comments on the article:
Only Microsoft could make Adobe Reader look good.
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@hungrier said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
Maybe they should scan the printed document back in with a Xerox scanner
In PDF format.
No, wait ...
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But. HOW?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
I blame image optimization caching.
I blame leprechauns ... dirty little buggers
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So what happens if you print to PDF?
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@Zecc said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
So what happens if you print to PDF?
the bug appears when Edge users are trying to print PDF documents via the browser’s built-in “Microsoft Print To PDF,”
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@Gurth Oh, bit of reading comprehension failing on my part, there.
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@thegoryone said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
It also can't save webpages (instead you need to send to OneNote or some such shit), somehow breaks some server-side PHP scripts (older version of PHPMailer, for example) and if you set it up just right, will replicate an IE9 bug where an executed PHP script can't properly evaluate an empty array.
Edge is great.
Sounds like that browser has a lot of...
:)
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Edge cases.
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@masonwheeler said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
@thegoryone said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
It also can't save webpages (instead you need to send to OneNote or some such shit), somehow breaks some server-side PHP scripts (older version of PHPMailer, for example) and if you set it up just right, will replicate an IE9 bug where an executed PHP script can't properly evaluate an empty array.
Edge is great.
Sounds like that browser has a lot of...
:)
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Edge cases.
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@Arantor I didn't know there was a CSI series set in the Matrix
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@hungrier CSI: Cyber.
Also, I has a sad that this topic isn't actually called "Microsoft Edge cannot into numbers."
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@Arantor said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
Also, I has a sad that this topic isn't actually called "Microsoft Edge cannot into numbers."
That would need more Polandball to work best…
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@hungrier
I was, uh, joking
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@hungrier That seem more logical than switching to a better browser
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@TimeBandit said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
@hungrier That seem more logical than switching to a better browser
The only solution I've found to printing PDFs properly is to save locally and open with Adobe. Cause Firefox can't do it right either (my pdf-landscape page is printed in portrait every time. fuck you FF)
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
@El_Heffe said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
The person who reported the problem says he reproduced the bug on Microsoft Edge 38.14393.1066.0 running the Microsoft EdgeHTML engine 14.14393, but also on Microsoft Edge 40.15063 running EdgeHTML 15.15063.
Is he sure those are the right version numbers...?
I noticed that.
Edge has only existed for ~2 years and it's already at version 40?
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@Arantor said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
@hungrier CSI: Cyber.
Also, I has a sad that this topic isn't actually called "Microsoft Edge cannot into numbers."
I had planned to call it that but left a out.
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@El_Heffe said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
Edge has only existed for ~2 years and it's already at version 40?
That's what it says:
The dumb thing is, the 'public' version number is the version of EdgeHTML, not Edge itself.
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@dcon said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
Cause Firefox can't do it right either
have yet to meet a PDF that chrome fucks up.
if you ahve one that FF fucks up that doesn't contain PII i would be interested to test it in Chrome.
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@RaceProUK I imagine the main Edge assembly updates when they add things to the UI, and the other only changes on release.
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@Magus Looking at the version history on Wikipedia, and I think you're right. Also, they skipped loads of version numbers.
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@RaceProUK said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
Also, they skipped loads of version numbers.
They must have hired the Mozilla version number dev.
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@Arantor said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
@hungrier CSI: Cyber.
Also, I has a sad that this topic isn't actually called "Microsoft Edge cannot into numbers."
...wtf. It isn't?! I've been reading it as "Microsoft Edge cannot into numbers" literally this whole time...
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@Arantor said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
@hungrier CSI: Cyber.
Also, I has a sad that this topic isn't actually called "Microsoft Edge cannot into numbers."
I read it like that the first time until the full recognition finished and I realized it was different.
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This bug is in the running for "Bizarre Bug of the Year".
I guess it is some kind of cache corruption issue. Those are fun to debug (NOT!).
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@BrisingrAerowing said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
This bug is in the running for "Bizarre Bug of the Year".
I guess it is some kind of cache corruption issue. Those are fun to debug (NOT!).
Hey! I guessed that first!
@Tsaukpaetra said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
@sloosecannon said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
But. HOW?
I blame image optimization caching.
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@BrisingrAerowing said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
This bug is in the running for "Bizarre Bug of the Year".
Not even close.
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@dcon said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
@TimeBandit said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
@hungrier That seem more logical than switching to a better browser
The only solution I've found to printing PDFs properly is to save locally and open with Adobe. Cause Firefox can't do it right either (my pdf-landscape page is printed in portrait every time. fuck you FF)
As much as I dislike most of Adobe's shoddy software, Acrobat Reader has always worked well* for viewing/printing PDFs and lately it seems they haven't had to patch massive security holes every 5 minutes like they used to.
Considering how insanely complicated the PDF spec is, putting a PDF reader into a web browser always seems like
*for certain values of "works"
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@El_Heffe said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
Considering how insanely complicated the PDF spec is, putting a PDF reader into a web browser always seems like
Yeah, they ought to make a newer, better fixed-layout document format, maybe zipped XML, and then make it an open ECMA standard, let's say ECMA-388, and then include a reader and printer for that in Windows 8 instead.
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@El_Heffe said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
@Scarlet_Manuka said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
Is he sure those are the right version numbers...?
I noticed that.
Edge has only existed for ~2 years and it's already at version 40?
I was just going for a reference to the bug, but there's that too, I guess. The rate version inflation is going these days, soon we'll see version 100 as the initial release...