On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 14:03:54 -0000, Mayayana wrote:

"Commander Kinsey" wrote

| Technically yes, but the PDF is displayed in my browser and has links to
click just like a webpage.
|

Not to nag, but you might also consider not allowing PDFs
to load in your browser. They're a common attack method.
They're not webpages. They only load at all because Adobe
has been trying, for many years, to find a way to hijack
the Internet. (Flash, PDF, AIR.)

Hijack?

Usually if a PDF is linked it's because you want a copy.
So it makes sense to set your browser so that you
download PDFs. Then you don't have to keep going
back to the website every time you want to look at it.
A PDF is not necessarily safer on your computer than in
the browser, but there are two differences:

1) You can use a PDF reader with script disabled or with
no scripting ability, to be safe. (Like Sumatra.)

2) A downloaded PDF is less likely to take you by
surprise, in case you were tricked into clicking the link
to it.

I expect PDFs to be as safe as web pages. And I usually only view them once. I might occasionally print or save, but I do that after viewing it.