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The way that the `pdf.sandbox.js` building was implemented feels all kinds of inconsistent/wrong, and it "sticks out" quite a bit when compared to the rest of the `gulpfile.js`. This patch thus attempts to improve the current situation slightly, to hopefully make future maintenance easier. One thing that strikes you, pretty immediately, when looking at PR 12604 is that the two new `gulp`-tasks added (i.e. `sandbox` and `watch-sandbox`) don't even work!? The reason for this is that they implicitly dependent upon the result of the `buildnumber`-task, which isn't listed as a dependency. (Try running `gulp clean` *first*, and invoking any of the new `gulp`-tasks will inevitably fail.) Furthermore, there's another (potentially big) problem with the implementation of e.g. the `gulp sandbox` task, since it doesn't actually wait for all building to complete before the task is considered as "done". This has the potential to cause all sorts of subtle bugs elsewhere, and the fact that things even "work" as-is can probably be attributed mostly to luck. Unfortunately there's no *perfect* way to improve things here, since the `pdf.sandbox.js` file depends on including the `pdf.scripting.js` file as a string, however I firmly believe that improvements are still possible here. To that end, this patch updates all relevant build-targets to create a *temporary* `pdf.scripting.js` file as part of the setup in the `gulp`-tasks, and then reads that file during the `pdf.sandbox.js` building. This at least allows us to bring all of this "sandbox"-build code much more in-line with the existing build-system. |
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PDF.js
PDF.js is a Portable Document Format (PDF) viewer that is built with HTML5.
PDF.js is community-driven and supported by Mozilla. Our goal is to create a general-purpose, web standards-based platform for parsing and rendering PDFs.
Contributing
PDF.js is an open source project and always looking for more contributors. To get involved, visit:
- Issue Reporting Guide
- Code Contribution Guide
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Good Beginner Bugs
- Projects
Feel free to stop by our Matrix room for questions or guidance.
Getting Started
Online demo
Please note that the "Modern browsers" version assumes native support for
features such as e.g. async
/await
, and ReadableStream
.
-
Modern browsers: https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/web/viewer.html
-
Older browsers: https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/es5/web/viewer.html
Browser Extensions
Firefox
PDF.js is built into version 19+ of Firefox.
Chrome
- The official extension for Chrome can be installed from the Chrome Web Store. This extension is maintained by @Rob--W.
- Build Your Own - Get the code as explained below and issue
gulp chromium
. Then open Chrome, go toTools > Extension
and load the (unpackaged) extension from the directorybuild/chromium
.
Getting the Code
To get a local copy of the current code, clone it using git:
$ git clone https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js.git
$ cd pdf.js
Next, install Node.js via the official package or via nvm. You need to install the gulp package globally (see also gulp's getting started):
$ npm install -g gulp-cli
If everything worked out, install all dependencies for PDF.js:
$ npm install
Finally, you need to start a local web server as some browsers do not allow opening
PDF files using a file://
URL. Run:
$ gulp server
and then you can open:
Please keep in mind that this requires an ES6 compatible browser; refer to Building PDF.js for usage with older browsers.
It is also possible to view all test PDF files on the right side by opening:
Building PDF.js
In order to bundle all src/
files into two production scripts and build the generic
viewer, run:
$ gulp generic
This will generate pdf.js
and pdf.worker.js
in the build/generic/build/
directory.
Both scripts are needed but only pdf.js
needs to be included since pdf.worker.js
will
be loaded by pdf.js
. The PDF.js files are large and should be minified for production.
Using PDF.js in a web application
To use PDF.js in a web application you can choose to use a pre-built version of the library
or to build it from source. We supply pre-built versions for usage with NPM and Bower under
the pdfjs-dist
name. For more information and examples please refer to the
wiki page on this subject.
Including via a CDN
PDF.js is hosted on several free CDNs:
- https://www.jsdelivr.com/package/npm/pdfjs-dist
- https://cdnjs.com/libraries/pdf.js
- https://unpkg.com/pdfjs-dist/
Learning
You can play with the PDF.js API directly from your browser using the live demos below:
More examples can be found in the examples folder. Some of them are using the pdfjs-dist package, which can be built and installed in this repo directory via gulp dist-install
command.
For an introduction to the PDF.js code, check out the presentation by our contributor Julian Viereck:
More learning resources can be found at:
The API documentation can be found at:
Questions
Check out our FAQs and get answers to common questions:
Talk to us on Matrix:
File an issue:
Follow us on twitter: @pdfjs