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At this point in time, after recent rounds of clean-up, the `webkit`-prefixed Fullscreen API is the only remaining *browser-specific* compatibility hack in the `web/`-folder JavaScript code. The standard, and thus unprefixed, Fullscreen API has been supported for *over three years* in both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. [According to MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fullscreen_API#browser_compatibility), the unprefixed Fullscreen API has been available since: - Mozilla Firefox 64, released on 2018-12-11; see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar#Past_branch_dates - Google Chrome 71, released on 2018-12-04; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome_version_history Hence *only* Safari now requires using a prefixed Fullscreen API, and it's thus (significantly) lagging behind other browsers in this regard. Considering that the default viewer is written *specifically* to be the UI for the Firefox PDF Viewer, and that we ask users to not just use it as-is[1], I think that we should only support the standard Fullscreen API now. Furthermore, note also that the FAQ already lists Safari as "Mostly" supported; see https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions#faq-support --- [1] Note e.g. http://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/getting_started/#introduction > The viewer is built on the display layer and is the UI for PDF viewer in Firefox and the other browser extensions within the project. It can be a good starting point for building your own viewer. *However, we do ask if you plan to embed the viewer in your own site, that it not just be an unmodified version. Please re-skin it or build upon it.*
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 async/await, optional chaining, nullish coalescing,
and private class fields/methods.
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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/legacy/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 a modern and fully up-to-date browser; refer to Building PDF.js for non-development usage of the PDF.js library.
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
If you need to support older browsers, run:
$ gulp generic-legacy
This will generate pdf.js and pdf.worker.js in the build/generic/build/ directory (respectively build/generic-legacy/build/).
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