Firefox PDF reader passes 'pixel-perfect' test

Post by prof » Tue, Jul 05, 2011, 12:49 PM UTC

Post by mooism2 » Tue, Jul 05, 2011, 1:27 PM UTC

darklajid wrote: post #3

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 _f…

Post by capnrefsmmat » Tue, Jul 05, 2011, 2:09 PM UTC

darklajid wrote: post #5

mooism2 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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 p…