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Dave Yeo

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May 13, 2012, 1:28:48 AM5/13/12
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I don't have time, so does anyone want to experiment with the pdf viewer
introduced in FF 12? https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js
As it is not officially supported by FF 10, please reply here rather
then Bugzilla.
Dave

Dariusz Piatkowski

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May 13, 2012, 9:58:41 AM5/13/12
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Hi Dave!
Sounds interesting...but for what it's worth...this is first time in a long time
that a URL completely takes down Firefox (10.0.2) on my machine.

I will try the 10.0.4 upgrade next and see where it takes me...

David McKenna

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May 13, 2012, 10:20:16 AM5/13/12
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Dave,
Using SeaMonkey 2.7.2esr I could not install the Firefox extension 'stable'
version, but I was able to install the development XPI. It works pretty good!
I tried a bunch of local PDFs and they all displayed, but I did get errors
occasionally when zooming.Thanks for the link...

Dave McKenna



Dave Yeo

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May 13, 2012, 12:47:04 PM5/13/12
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Good to here it is becoming SeaMonkey compatible.
Dave


Steve Wendt

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May 13, 2012, 2:28:03 PM5/13/12
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On 05/13/12 07:20 am, David McKenna wrote:

> Using SeaMonkey 2.7.2esr I could not install the Firefox extension 'stable'
> version, but I was able to install the development XPI. It works pretty good!

For me, the text spacing looks terrible - characters overlap or are
spaced too far apart.

Steve Wendt

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May 13, 2012, 2:31:46 PM5/13/12
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On 05/13/12 11:28 am, Steve Wendt wrote:

> For me, the text spacing looks terrible - characters overlap or are
> spaced too far apart.

There's a bunch of great samples here:
http://www.dumbentia.com/gallery_comp.html

In quite a few of them, the text appears as a bunch of symbols, which
makes me think there is some bad font substitution happening.

Dave Yeo

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May 13, 2012, 2:53:47 PM5/13/12
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Reminds me of the bug when printing to a PDF, garbage on the second
print. Wonder if it is related?
Dave

David McKenna

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May 13, 2012, 2:56:37 PM5/13/12
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Steve,
Yeah... I see what you mean. I don't have trouble with local PDFs though...
I wonder if this has to do with downloadable fonts disabled?

Dave McKenna



Dave Yeo

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May 13, 2012, 3:03:59 PM5/13/12
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Restarting the browser didn't help
Dave

Dave Yeo

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May 13, 2012, 3:05:55 PM5/13/12
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Fontconfig should find a match. More likely the PDF's have embedded
fonts that the JavaScript can't handle yet.
Dave

David McKenna

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May 13, 2012, 3:09:10 PM5/13/12
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On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:56:37 -0400 (EDT), David McKenna wrote:

>Steve,
>
>On Sun, 13 May 2012 11:31:46 -0700, Steve Wendt wrote:
>
> Yeah... I see what you mean. I don't have trouble with local PDFs though...
>I wonder if this has to do with downloadable fonts disabled?
>

No... that's not it. I tried enabling downloadable fonts but no difference.
I downloaded some of those PDFs and they didn't display correctly locally
either. In fact, both Lucide and GhostView (using Ghostscript 9.04) would not
even attempt to display many of them giving errors ('damaged file' and the
like). A few did display and were correct...

Dave McKenna




Dave Yeo

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May 13, 2012, 5:38:41 PM5/13/12
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David McKenna wrote:
>> > Yeah... I see what you mean. I don't have trouble with local PDFs though...
>> >I wonder if this has to do with downloadable fonts disabled?
>> >
> No... that's not it. I tried enabling downloadable fonts

Since we don't have the code for downloadable fonts, enabling will only
cause a crash if it tries to download them anyways.
Dave

Steve Wendt

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May 13, 2012, 7:42:31 PM5/13/12
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On 05/13/12 11:56 am, David McKenna wrote:

>> There's a bunch of great samples here:
>> http://www.dumbentia.com/gallery_comp.html
>>
>> In quite a few of them, the text appears as a bunch of symbols, which
>> makes me think there is some bad font substitution happening.
>
> Yeah... I see what you mean. I don't have trouble with local PDFs though...
> I wonder if this has to do with downloadable fonts disabled?

No. Same files show same problem when local, and downloadable fonts are
for web pages, not PDF files.

Steve Wendt

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May 14, 2012, 2:03:37 PM5/14/12
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On 5/13/2012 12:05 PM, Dave Yeo wrote:

> More likely the PDF's have embedded fonts that the JavaScript can't
> handle yet.

FWIW, they display correctly on Windows (tested with SM 2.9.1, but
that's probably not relevant).
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