Firefox PDF reader passes 'pixel-perfect' test

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16 points·meadhikari··6 comments

Link is broken.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20076699-264/firefox-pdf-r...

Here is the original blog post from mozilla → http://blog.mozilla.com/cjones/2011/07/03/pdf-js-first-miles...

Someone 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.

"but right now it requires a nightly build of Firefox"

Thank 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.

Apparently 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)

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