Google Chrome integrates display of PDF into browser

cpr 15y ago ↗

Anyone know if they're using the JS-based renderer, or is this C/C++-level code?

Probably C++. A quick Google Code Search on the Chromium project reveals files like this one: http://codesearch.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#OAMlx_jo-ck/...

I'm not 100% sure that's relevant code to the discussion at hand, but it seems likely.

dguido 15y ago ↗

It's C++. AFAIK it's built on top of the Foxit SDK.

dcdan 15y ago ↗

I can confirm that there were foxit references in pre-beta source code

edit: i think this was the reference i was thinking of, is it for this feature, or is it unrelated?

http://www.google.com/codesearch/p#OAMlx_jo-ck/src/third_par...

patrickaljord 15y ago ↗

On Ubuntu if I go to chrome://plugins it says:

/opt/google/chrome/libpdf.so

Is that foxit SDK?

mhd 15y ago ↗

Can be turned off in chrome://plugins - for those who don't like PDF plugins and prefer a proper application like Evince or Skim (or, well, Adobe Reader).

Still no way to disable the annoying download confirmation message, which now also pops up with PDFs.

ljegou 15y ago ↗

Thanks, it was bugged in my 8.x OSX version of Chrome (can't change page)

mquander 15y ago ↗

Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1440463

Google Chrome integrates display of PDF into browser (chrome.blogspot.com)

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