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Mozilla’s open-source library PDF.js will render small and simple PDFs “good enough” for most workflows. But users working in high-stakes enterprise or demanding design-agency settings may find PDF.js’s…

Oct 9 2019

Around 2011, a team of Mozilla engineers set out to discover whether a browser-native PDF renderer written on a web platform would allow web technologies to “subsume” PDF. That ambition led to PDF.js. An…

Sept 10 2019

If you view a PDF embedded in a web page, you would likely use the browser’s built-in PDF reader. On Firefox, that’s PDF.js, a popular open-source JavaScript library published by Mozilla in 2011. PDF.js…

Aug 9 2019

pdf.js is a well known project for rendering PDF documents directly in the browser. In that sense, it is similar to our recently announced PDFNetJS. While pdf.js is interesting project, and may be a…

Nov 24 2015