async5

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by async5 11y ago
Shumway can be used as a runtime for those movies - the site owner just to need fallback to its HTML player. It plays common ActionScript 1/2/3 usages well.
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by async5 11y ago
Exactly!
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by async5 11y ago
There is also https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pdf-viewer/oemmndc... :)
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by async5 11y ago
Market share... and ignorance of users :)
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by async5 11y ago
There are not exploitable (at least not the same way). Firefox PDF viewer is a modification of PDF.js, so PDF.js code would run in the browser without a web server. The exploit might poke a hole in EMBED tag security of the web browser (and
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by async5 11y ago
For users that are opted in telemetry reporting, it can go up to 40M PDF views per browser version [1] [1] http://telemetry.mozilla.org/dist.html#!cumulative=0&end_date=2015-06-05&max_channel_version=beta%252F38&a
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by async5 11y ago
And even latest here http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.co.il/2015/07/stable-ch... - 5 of them has pdfium
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by async5 12y ago
Original PDF - 1.0M, SVGs - 7.7M, gzip'ed SVGs - 1.7M. I think the latter is a preferable format for the web, so you are looking 70% increase for this types of documents, but bare in mind that you may send only certain pages.
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by async5 12y ago
Now you have alternative to not use PDF (viewer)?
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by async5 12y ago
What does "the fonts are not kept" mean? http://pramodhkp.github.io/pdf2svg/svgdump/tracemonkey-1.svg looks as original PDF page and the SVG contains embedded fonts.
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A tool that converts PDFs to SVG, built using PDF.js(pramodhkp.github.io)
59 points by async5 12y ago|12 comments
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by async5 12y ago
Just a hint: "pdfjs.disabled" is hard switch off and it makes it harder to recover native PDF plugin viewing capability. Switching using Preferences/Options->Applications makes it easier. Try it and stop complaining that y
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by async5 12y ago
Per https://code.google.com/p/pdfium/issues/detail?id=1 : "Looks like the standalone build system is not yet present."
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by async5 12y ago
Except one does not provide protection from the patents.
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by async5 12y ago
It looks like they did it in a hurry (on the next day) just after https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/how-fast-is-pdf-js/ was published? Competition FTW!
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by async5 12y ago
> H.264 is a public standard that anyone is free to implement. That's correct -- you can implement it. But you have to pay for its usage. See http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/AVC_
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by async5 12y ago
> If client side rendering is too slow, then don't render on the client. Cache the rasterized pdf as tiles up in the cloud and only read the actual document... Some people are not comfortable with giving their financial/proprie
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by async5 12y ago
Filing nothing will not be helpful for sure. Creating a report in any related bug reporting system will bring developer's, QA's or manager's attention. Just provide enough information, so somebody else except you can reproduc
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by async5 12y ago
Is it https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760997 ?
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by async5 12y ago
right... http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/search-results?query=mupdf...
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by async5 12y ago
Yes, you can build you own personalized extension for Firefox, Chrome or Opera from PDF.js source code, which will disable text layer. (see also #textLayer=off feature at https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/wiki&#x2F
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by async5 12y ago
Here is telemetry data from beta users about size of PDFs http://telemetry.mozilla.org/#beta/29/PDF_VIEWER_DOCUMENT_SI... -- typical PDF size is about 200KB, and 11MB is less 20% of them.
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by async5 14y ago
> or http://raditts.com/phyles/xiao3.swf I was looking for this movie. Thanks!