pdfListView
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.