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PDF Reader in JavaScript

67 mentions on Hacker News by 60 people: 4 stories, 63 comments · first 2012-01-27 · latest 2026-10-30

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  1. …but my overall understanding of the code base is pretty weak. I recommend filing a new issue here: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/new
    comment by nnethercote · 2014-05-09 · in How fast is PDF.js?
  2. …be stuck with this behaviour till "pdf.js 2.0". Edit: This is an example of what I'm talking about https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/3853
    comment by keeperofdakeys · 2014-05-09 · in How fast is PDF.js?
  3. > Will a bug filed at GitHub like https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/4761 still reach the right place? Filing at Bugzilla will probably give you a wider audience. This can be useful if the underlying perf problem is with Firefox…
    comment by nnethercote · 2014-05-09 · in How fast is PDF.js?
  4. Reporting bugs in Firefox is intimidating to say the least. Will a bug filed at GitHub like https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/4761 still reach the right place? bgirard's profiling work in this thread has been amazing, but I don't…
    comment by voltagex_ · 2014-05-09 · in How fast is PDF.js?
  5. …that one is kind of sluggish for me too. Usable, but not smooth. I filed an issue on pdf.js here: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/4761
    comment by azakai · 2014-05-09 · in How fast is PDF.js?
  6. …Opera from PDF.js source code, which will disable text layer. (see also #textLayer=off feature at https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/wiki/Debugging-pdf.js#url-... )
    comment by async5 · 2014-05-08 · in How fast is PDF.js?
  7. …wants to improve the state of PDF rendering, they do it in such a way that everybody benefits, i.e. https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js
    comment by bad_user · 2013-11-01 · in Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned “Rockstar” sues Google
  8. pdf.js: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js NOTE: If you do decide to build your own thing, I think it would be cool if you could run LaTeX in the browser directly (I guess you could do this by building pdflatex with emscripten)
    comment by niggler · 2013-03-29 · in Create your next conference poster with LaTeX
  9. Is this still an issue with the development version? https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js#extension I tested it on Windows and it 'works for me'.
    comment by kbrosnan · 2013-02-20 · in Firefox introduces PDF viewer
  10. We're working on that https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/pull/2719
    comment by brendandahl · 2013-02-20 · in Firefox introduces PDF viewer
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    Pdf.js - PDF Reader in JavaScript
    story by aaronbrethorst · 2013-02-10 · 0 comments
  12. …at all. And they're working on Shumway[2] for the ability to emulate Flash in Javascript. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js [2] https://github.com/mozilla/shumway
    comment by kibwen · 2013-01-12 · in Mozilla adds all recent versions of Java to its Firefox add-on blocklist
  13. Interesting, I saw something like this by looking at the https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/ project. Take a look at the closed pull requests. They have some bots listening for commands in comments and do stuff like unit testing and…
    comment by sonnenkiste · 2012-08-30 · in Deploying at GitHub
  14. …rendering issues. Don't forget to check out our repo - new contributors are always welcome! :) http://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js Feel free to hit me up on Twitter at @arturadib for direct correspondence or join our mailing list at:…
    comment by arturadib · 2012-03-25 · in Firefox To Get Native PDF Viewer Powered by PDF.js
  15. Just as a side note, someone wrote a JavaScript-backed JPEG 2000 decompressor: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/pull/1068/files
    comment by petercooper · 2012-01-31 · in Fast Lossless Color Image Compression
  16. …a cool project called pdf.js [1] which opens PDF docs in browser using HTML5 and javascript. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js
    comment by lunarscape · 2012-01-28 · in Firefox 12 will finally have a New Tab Page and Home Tab
  17. …a PDF reader and "integration with Firefox is a possibility if the experiment proves successful": https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js It's mostly working already. I rarely ever find PDFs that it breaks with.
    comment by ootachi · 2012-01-27 · in Firefox 12 will finally have a New Tab Page and Home Tab