Additional Learning Resources

Publications

You can read more about PDF.js here:

• http://andreasgal.com/2011/06/15/pdf-js/
• http://blog.mozilla.com/cjones/2011/06/15/overview-of-pdf-js-guts/

Listen:

• http://www.aminutewithbrendan.com/pages/20110616

Presentations

Videos:

• Julian Viereck – Zurich GTUG 2011, http://blog.mozilla.org/labs/2011/10/video-what-is-pdf-js/
• Andreas Gal – JSConf.eu, 2011, http://blip.tv/jsconfeu/andreas-gal-pdf-js-5723942

Slides:

• http://jviereck.github.com/slides/2012_07_berlinjs/index.html
• https://people.mozilla.com/~cjones/PDF.js-mozilla-vision-japan-2012.pdf
• https://people.mozilla.com/~ydelendik/pdfjs-ttf-2012.pdf

PDF-related resources

A really basic overview of PDF is described here:

• http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/livecycle/lc_pdf_overview_format.pdf

A more detailed file example:

• http://gnupdf.org/Introduction_to_PDF

The PDF specification itself:

• http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf
• http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/pdf/pdfs/pdf_reference_1-7.pdf

Test files:

• http://acroeng.adobe.com/

Presentations:

• http://labs.appligent.com/presentations/recognizing_malformed_pdf_f.pdf

Examples:

• Minimal example that showcases PDF rendering with text selection enabled

Related projects

Open source projects:

• http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
• http://www.mupdf.com/