pdfListView

NOTE: THIS REPO IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED, SEE: #22

A simple list view to render a PDF document using PDF.JS.

Project Goals

• provide basic functionality to build a viewer around the PDF.JS library
• while this library provides the founcation to build a PDF viewer, it only ships with a simple default viewer implementation for demo purpose
• uses no library/framework other than the PDF.JS library
• flexible, modular, easy to replace parts with other implementations

Future Plans & Missing Implementations

• cache rendered pages
• use already rendered page image as placeholder if the zoom of the page changes
• two pages support
• page-wise scrolling
• full-screen support
• form support
• annotation support
• more APIs: go to next/previous page, rotatePage, ...
• indicator (spinner) when page has not finished rendering
• search
• printing (as much as this is possible with current browsers)

Run locally

Some browsers (like Chrome) need to load the index.html file using a local web server. This can easily done by installing the dev-dependencies:

$> npm install

Starting the server is done by executing:

$> grunt server

This will start a local web server on port 9996. To server the index.html, point your browser at http://localhost:9996/.

License

This project uses the same license (Apache License) as the PDF.JS project. This makes pdfListView compatible with PDF.JS and makes reusing code between the projects possible.