PDF Viewing

#1

Post by gjtorikian » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 6:42 PM UTC

Re: PDF Viewing

#2

Post by adriancooney » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 7:02 PM UTC

If GitHub continues on this track of making content available directly in the browser, the use cases are endless as a service. When someone, and someone will, makes git accessible to the general public, features like these will propel GitHub into the general consumer space.

Re: PDF Viewing

#3

Post by ushi » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 7:29 PM UTC

Checkout the pdfjs test suite, if you want to try it:

https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/tree/master/test/pdfs

Re: PDF Viewing

#4

Post by jsnk » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 7:31 PM UTC

This is unrelated to the news, but what's the best way to create this sort of screencast in OS X?

Re: PDF Viewing

#5

Post by Oompa » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 7:33 PM UTC

jsnk wrote: post #4

This is unrelated to the news, but what's the best way to create this sort of screencast in OS X?

I used Quicktime to do a screen recording before taking that to GifBrewery to make the gif.

Re: PDF Viewing

#6

Post by landr0id » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 7:37 PM UTC

adriancooney wrote: post #2

If GitHub continues on this track of making content available directly in the browser, the use cases are endless as a service. When someone, and someone will, makes git accessible to the general public, features like these will propel GitHub into the general consumer space.

I've been using GitHub a lot lately for storing my class notes and this is really awesome. I use an app which allows Markdown/mathematical LaTeX and renders it to a PDF and previously they were impossible to view on mobile because of how raw assets are served.

Re: PDF Viewing

#7

Post by bgwhn » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 7:41 PM UTC

They seem to be rendering the documents at 2x, which is good for retina and 4k displays, but means that it's slower on low-res displays, and the text's anti-aliasing is at the mercy of the image scaling algorithm used.

Instead, they should render the documents at the actual resolution it's being displayed with.

Re: PDF Viewing

#8

Post by Synergyse » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 7:55 PM UTC

jsnk wrote: post #4

This is unrelated to the news, but what's the best way to create this sort of screencast in OS X?

http://www.cockos.com/licecap/

Re: PDF Viewing

#9

Post by Amorymeltzer » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 7:59 PM UTC

adriancooney wrote: post #2

If GitHub continues on this track of making content available directly in the browser, the use cases are endless as a service. When someone, and someone will, makes git accessible to the general public, features like these will propel GitHub into the general consumer space.

As it stands, git is apparently the only barrier to GitHub being used widely as a backup, file transfer, and website hosting service.

Re: PDF Viewing

#10

Post by Sir_Cmpwn » Tue, Mar 17, 2015, 8:15 PM UTC

jsnk wrote: post #4

This is unrelated to the news, but what's the best way to create this sort of screencast in OS X?

With ffmpeg. It's the swiss army knife of media tools, and it can capture from your desktop [1].

[1] https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Capture/Desktop