Mozilla's pdf.js version 0.2: sample PDF now renders in HTML5, JavaScript

Mozilla's pdf.js project has reached its first milestone: a "pixel-perfect rendering" of a sample PDF (a paper on Mozilla's Tracemonkey JavaScript engine). Well, perfect in one specific browser and OS combination.
The pdf.js project currently produces different results depending on the browser and OS you are using. If you're running a Firefox nightly on a Windows 7 machine, where the browser can use Direct2D and DirectWrite, the result is perfection (assuming you ignore a bug in DirectWrite's font hinting). The paper isn't rendered so well on other platforms, nor on older versions Firefox. It's even worse in other browsers.
Nevertheless, some serious progress has been made, considering that ... »read more

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