Re: pdf.js + xwidget-webkit-browse-url = 🌟

[joakim]

Clément Pit--Claudel <address@hidden> writes:

> One really neat application of Joakim's work on XWidget support is that we 
> can now show PDFs using pdf.js (Apache 2 licensed) as an alternative to 
> rendering each page to a PNG via DocView; it makes both the initial display, 
> and zooming, a lot faster.
>
> There are issues with scrolling (Joakim, ideas?) but the result still looks 
> very good. To try it, run 
>    (xwidget-webkit-browse-url 
> "https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/web/viewer.html"; nil)

That looks very neat!

I'm not sure why the scrolling fails in this particular case.


I'll add it to my list of things to investigate.

>
> Cheers,
> Clément.
>

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Joakim Verona