Rendering PDF with HTML5 and JavaScript
Wow, beeindruckend – Rendering PDF with HTML5 and JavaScript.
We have been developing pdf.js in the open, albeit quietly, for about a month now. We were waiting on the completion of some major features (Type1 fonts, gradients, etc.) before communicating pdf.js more broadly. We’ve been taken by surprise by the early and intense interest in our work, so we decided to blog and talk about our project earlier than we initially planned. (…) If you want to see a demo of pdf.js, click on this link. There are still glitches and rendering artifacts, but you will get the picture. We are still missing Type1 PostScript fonts, which Vivien Nicolas is working on.