Before commit:
chrome-extension://EXTENSIONID/content/web/viewer.html?file=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Ffile.pdf
After commit:
chrome-extension://EXTENSIONID/http://example/file.pdf
Technical details:
- The extension's background page uses the webRequest API to intercept
requests for <extension host>/<real path to pdf>, and redirect it to
the viewer's URL.
- viewer.js uses history.replaceState to rewrite the URL, so that it's
easier for users to recognize and copy-paste URLs.
- The fake paths /http:, /https:, /file:, etc. have been added to the
web_accessible_resources section of the manifest file, in order to
avoid seeing chrome-extension://invalid/ instead of the actual URL
when using history back/forward to navigate from/to the PDF viewer.
- Since the relative path resolving doesn't work because relative URLs
are inaccurate, a <base> tag has been added. This method has already
been proven to work in the Firefox add-on.
Notes:
- This commit has been cherry-picked from crx-using-streams-api.
- Need to merge https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/pull/3582 to deal with
a bug in Chrome <=30
- In Chrome, getting the contents of a FTP file is not possible, so
there's no support for FTP files, even though the extension router
recognizes the ftp: scheme.
This shim does the following:
1. Intercept window.print()
2. For a window.print() call (if allowed, ie. no previous print job):
1. Dispatch the beforeprint event.
2. Render a printg progress dialog.
3. For each canvas, call mozPrintCallback if existent (one at a time, async).
4. During each mozPrintCallback callback, update the progress dialog.
5. When all <canvas>es have been rendered, invoke the real window.print().
6. Dispatch the afterprint event.
The shim is not included in Firefox through the preprocessor.
Keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl/Cmd + P) are intercepted and default behavior
(i.e. printing) is prevented, and the steps for window.print() are run.
window.attachEvent is used, in order to cancel printing in IE10 and
earlier (courtesy of Stack Overflow - http://stackoverflow.com/a/15302847).
Unfortunately, this doesn't work in IE11 - if Ctrl + P is used, the
print dialog will be shown twice: Once because of Ctrl + P, and again
when all pages have finished rendering.
This logic of this polyfill is not specific to PDF.js, so it can also
be used in other projects.
There's one additional modification in PDF.js's viewer.js: The printed
<canvas> element is wrapped in a <div>. This is needed, because Chrome
would otherwise print one canvas on two pages.
If focused element is a textarea, viewer should not process keyboard shortcuts (as it does with input and select elements) because while writing on a textarea, if you press k,p,l, or n, the viewer scrolls next/prev page and the letter is not added to the textarea (eg. in my case I had a viewer displaying a product specs in PDF and a "request a quote" form at it's right, the form had a textarea field and users complains that they couldn't write in it, after checking it, I've realized it was this particular issue and fixd it with the change I'm commiting.
The ArrayBuffer holding the data might be over-sized in case the
data length was not known during the transfer, e.g. when using a
Content-Encoding other than `identity` or when using a
Transfer-Encoding.
Only the view into the buffer has the correct length then, hence
always use the view directly when creating the blob URI for the
download, instead of the over-sized underlying buffer.
Closes GH-3627
Closes GH-3634
pdfHandler-local.js references the isPdfDownloadable function from
pdfHandler.js, but the function didn't expect that the responseHeaders
property was absent. Added a check to prevent a runtime error when a
local file is displayed in a frame, and show local PDF files again.
Local files are rendered on the chrome-extension:-protocol. The previous
method of getting the PDF URL was incorrect, this has been fixed as well.
