Re:Firefox introduces PDF viewer
by makomk on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @01:20PM
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From what I can gather Chrome's PDF viewer pretty much is Acrobat Reader. (It's also not available to users of the open-source version Chromium - in fact, as far as I can tell there's no decent way to read PDFs in Chromium at all.)
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Re:Firefox introduces PDF viewer
by snotrockets on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @02:23PM
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The pdf.js repository contains a Chrome/Chromium plugin, which works for me. YMMV.
The PDF viewer in Chrome is available to Chromium users (just copying the libpdf.so or libpdf.DLL file into the appropriate directory works); it's just not open source.
I think for most people, when they say "available," they mean "without copyright infringement."
Re:Firefox introduces PDF viewer
by keeperofdakeys on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @07:42PM
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As long as you don't distribute chromium with this file, then it will be fine. (You do it yourself).
I'm not sure what the rules are: Google gives me permission to install Chrome, and then, presumably I have permission to delete everything but the PDF viewer plugin, right? Maybe the Chrome EULA disallows this, but, to be honest, I didn't read it.
Ahhh. I couldn't find any information on how to do this the last time I looked.