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Firefox PDF reader passes 'pixel-perfect' test
- prof 15y agoLink is broken. http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20076699-264/firefox-pdf-reader-passes-pixel-perfect-test/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20076699-264/firefox-pdf-r...
- darklajid 15y agoSomeone else already corrected the link. Commenting the article itself: If I click on the link that is supposed to show me a pixel perfect PDF in my FF 5 instance, I get a lot of gibberish (misaligned braces, text that overlaps) that is most certainly not part of the original PDF. So - while I'd love to see something like this in the future, the author seems to see wildly different results than I do. For now, this _fails_ the pixel-perfect test and just about passes the readable test.
- mooism2 15y ago"but right now it requires a nightly build of Firefox"
- darklajid 15y agoThank you for pointing this out. I was too eager to see it in action and - after skimming the article and obviously missing that clause - proceeded to hit the nice blue "read the JavaScript paper with pdf.js online, too" in the paragraph before the quote that contains the statement about nightlies. My bad, mea culpa. I won't run a nightly on my main machine to give it a try, but awesome if it made the leap to pixel perfect between FF 5 and current builds.
- capnrefsmmat 15y agoApparently there's a number of bugs with Firefox's implementation of canvas and web fonts that were fixed for FF7. They rely on those fixes to get correct behavior. (They've also found a couple WebKit bugs as well)
- mariocesar 15y agoHere is the original blog post from mozilla → http://blog.mozilla.com/cjones/2011/07/03/pdf-js-first-milestone/ http://blog.mozilla.com/cjones/2011/07/03/pdf-js-first-miles...