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Chrome's PDF reader is based off of foxit, which is also C++.
by throwaway2048 10y ago
Chrome's PDF reader is based off of foxit, which is also C++.
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- dmix 10y agoRight, PDFium is the default. I've been using the PDF.js plugin for a while now and disabled the default via chrome://plugins. Fortunately Chrome stopped supporting Foxit and Adobe PDF plugins with version 45 (released a year ago) when they depreciated NPAPI. > As of Chrome 45, support for old, insecure NPAPI plugins is permanently removed. I believe Adobe Reader and Foxit Reader both integrate with web browsers through NPAPI plugins. If so, the old NPAPI-based Adobe Reader and Foxit Reader no longer works in Chrome, regardless of whichever version you have installed. http://www.chromium.org/developers/npapi-deprecation http://www.chromium.org/developers/npapi-deprecation It's interesting that they still expose their own C++ code to remote PDFs which apparently had some servere bugs: http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/pdfium.html http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/pdfium.html
- ComodoHacker 10y agoDo you have a source for this?
- izacus 10y agoUh, you can easily see it in the Chrome source itself? Google actually maintains the fork itself here: https://pdfium.googlesource.com/ https://pdfium.googlesource.com/
- ComodoHacker 10y agoI meant not the source code, but the claim that it's based on Foxit.
- izacus 10y agoIt's also in the source (e.g. FPDF_ prefixes, comments, etc.) Also https://www.foxitsoftware.com/blog/foxit-pdf-technology-chosen-for-google-open-source/ https://www.foxitsoftware.com/blog/foxit-pdf-technology-chos... .