PDF.js

PDF.js is an HTML5-based Portable Document Format renderer.

Project Manager: Pascal Finette

Developers: Andreas Gal (part-time), Chris Jones (part-time), Vivien Nicolas (part-time), Shaon Barman

Repository: https://github.com/andreasgal/pdf.js

IRC: #pdfjs on irc.mozilla.org

Milestone: PDF.js Firefox extension 1.0

(TODO)

Backend

• Need to parse/fetch/build pageDict ...
  • Type 1 fonts
    • fixes broken ligatures?
• flate
  • xref streams
• linearization
  • byte range requests
• zooming
• draw subpage
• hyperlinks (hash URLs, intra-doc links)
• perf (use workers for some stuff?)

UI

• zooming
• pan/zoom gestures
• animations (page flip, etc.)
• hyperlinks

Platform

• even-odd fills

Testing

• harness: reftest? compare to other rendering library?