Pdf.js reached its first milestone

Re:Pdf.js reached its first milestone by ajays on Monday July 04, 2011 @01:36PM (#2727183)

I must be doing something wrong, because I'm getting fairly shitty rendering. I'm on FF5, Ubuntu 10.04. Anyone else have problems viewing their demo paper?

Screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/hESRv

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Re:Pdf.js reached its first milestone by azakai on Monday July 04, 2011 @02:24PM (#2727329)

The article mentions that pdf.js uses some new Firefox features. It should work correctly in FF7 (nightly) and not FF5 (stable).

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Re:Pdf.js reached its first milestone by notatoad on Monday July 04, 2011 @10:00PM (#2728410)

"We said above that pdf.js renders the Tracemonkey paper perfectly … if you’re running a Firefox nightly. On a Windows 7 machine where Firefox can use Direct2D and DirectWrite. If you ignore what appears to be a bug in DirectWrite’s font hinting. The paper is rendered less well on other platforms and in older FIrefoxen, and even worse in other browsers"

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Re:Pdf.js reached its first milestone by andhow on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @12:10AM (#2732540)

Yeah, it seems to be a Linux thing; Andreas was explaining that the font-rendering is highly platform-dependent.

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