MuPDF is a very nice piece of software, but it's GPL licensed. As I understand it, this basically prevents MuPDF from actually being used in commercial software ... unless of course we would make the software open…
I just tried the mentioned document in the viewer on http://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/web/viewer.html I agree that the speed is a lot worse than in Preview.app for example, but it's also not unusable. I will look at it…
Keep in mind that PDF.js is an engine + a viewer. Just a fast engine does not make a nice experience. There are many things in the viewer that one can do to make the experience of using it feel a lot faster.
Filesize has nothing to do with speed most of the time ... Try the PDF Reference document [1], it's pretty fast. The project is very active: in the three month that we investigated it, many of the pdfs that were…
We realize that the text layer is sometimes a performance problem. We pushed already a lot of improvements to it and there is more too come.
MuPDF is a very nice piece of software, but it's GPL licensed. As I understand it, this basically prevents MuPDF from actually being used in commercial software ... unless of course we would make the software open…
I just tried the mentioned document in the viewer on http://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/web/viewer.html I agree that the speed is a lot worse than in Preview.app for example, but it's also not unusable. I will look at it…
Keep in mind that PDF.js is an engine + a viewer. Just a fast engine does not make a nice experience. There are many things in the viewer that one can do to make the experience of using it feel a lot faster.
Filesize has nothing to do with speed most of the time ... Try the PDF Reference document [1], it's pretty fast. The project is very active: in the three month that we investigated it, many of the pdfs that were…
We realize that the text layer is sometimes a performance problem. We pushed already a lot of improvements to it and there is more too come.