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This patch will help reduce memory usage, especially for longer documents, when the user scrolls around in the thumbnailView (in the sidebar). Note how the `PDFPageProxy.cleanup` method will, assuming it's safe to do so, release main-thread resources associated with the page. These include things such as e.g. image data (which can be arbitrarily large), and also the operatorList (which can also be quite large). Hence when pages are evicted from the `PDFPageViewBuffer`, on the `BaseViewer`-instance, the `PDFPageView.destroy` method is invoked which will (among other things) call `PDFPageProxy.cleanup` in the API. However, looking at the `PDFThumbnailViewer`/`PDFThumbnailView` classes you'll notice that there's no attempt to ever call `PDFPageProxy.cleanup`, which implies that in certain circumstances we'll essentially keep all resources allocated permanently on the `PDFPageProxy`-instances in the API. In particular, this happens when the users opens the sidebar and starts scrolling around in the thumbnails. Generally speaking you obviously need to keep all thumbnail *images* around, since otherwise the thumbnailView is useless, but there's still room for improvement here. Please note that the case where a *rendered page* is used to create the thumbnail is (obviously) completely unaffected by the issues described above, and this rather only applies to thumbnails being explicitly rendered by the `PDFThumbnailView.draw` method. For the latter case, we can fix these issues simply by calling `PDFPageProxy.cleanup` once rendering has finished. To prevent *accidentally* pulling the rug out from under `PDFPageViewBuffer` in the viewer, which expects data to be available, this required adding a couple of new methods[1] to enable checking that it's indeed safe to call `PDFPageProxy.cleanup` from the `PDFThumbnailView.draw` method. It's really quite fascinating that no one has noticed this issue before, since it's been around since basically "forever". --- [1] While it should be *very* rare for `PDFThumbnailView.draw` to be called for a pageView that's also in the `PDFPageViewBuffer`, given that pages are rendered before thumbnails and that the *rendered page* is used to create the thumbnail, it can still happen since rendering is asynchronous. Furthermore, it's also possible for `PDFThumbnailView.setImage` to be disabled, in which case checking the `PDFPageViewBuffer` for active pageViews *really* matters. |
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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.
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Modern browsers: https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/web/viewer.html
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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 > Extensionand 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