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The `pdfjs-dist/lib/` directory contains a README file that explicitly advises against using those files, however based on a fairly large number of issues filed over the years users seem to be (mostly) overlooking that warning. In particular it unfortunately seems to be somewhat common for users to attempt to "combine" proper builds from `pdfjs-dist/build/` together with individual components from the `pdfjs-dist/lib/web/` directory, which more often than not leads to subtle bugs and general problems. When we receive bug reports about this it's often not immediately obvious what the problem is, given that many issues lack enough details (such as runnable test-cases), but after some back-and-forth it usually turns out that usage of `pdfjs-dist/lib/` is the culprit. Considering that keeping the general PDF.js library working is challenging and time-consuming enough nowadays, this patch thus proposes that we stop including the "lib"-build in the `pdfjs-dist` repository to both reduce user confusion and the support burden. |
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PDF.js
PDF.js is a Portable Document Format (PDF) library that is built with HTML5. Our goal is to create a general-purpose, web standards-based platform for parsing and rendering PDFs.
This is a pre-built version of the PDF.js source code. It is automatically generated by the build scripts.
For usage with older browsers/environments, without native support for the
latest JavaScript features, please see the legacy/ folder.
Please see this wiki page for information about supported browsers/environments.
See https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js for learning and contributing.