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This is great because it is now the best open-source PDF rendering library. GhostScript, Poppler, XPdf, pdf.js -- they all sort of work alright, but are patheti
by zx2c4 12y ago
This is great because it is now the best open-source PDF rendering library. GhostScript, Poppler, XPdf, pdf.js -- they all sort of work alright, but are pathetic compared to FoxIt, on which this source code is based. What we now have with this source is a high performance highly compliant clean codebase of C++ PDF rendering code. Excellent news. Expect lots of future PDF innovations to be based on this.
- TillE 12y agoI've had by far the best performance with Sumatra, which is open source but unfortunately Windows-only. I try Chrome's PDF reader once every few months, hoping it'll improve, but I always disable it when I see it's still disappointingly sluggish.
- gsnedders 12y agoSumatra just uses muPDF, FWIW.
- johnx123-up 12y agoNot really true. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7788074 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7788074
- fithisux 12y agoI use ghostscript consistently more than ten years. No serious issues. I use it to read/print pdfs/pss from arxiv org. Last six years I also use sumatra. Faster but I prefer mupdf reader.