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0 pointsthristian2y ago0 comments

The PDFium plugin that was part of Chrome was based on C++ code from Foxit.

PDFjs was written in JS from day one, and (as far as I know) was not based on any previous PDF reader.

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Maybe that's what I was thinking of. Thanks.

BTW, I didn't mean they necessarily used the actual Foxit code, but it was a starting point maybe reimplemented in JS.

cxr2y ago

In no sense is PDF.js related to Foxit except that they are both PDF readers.

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0 pointsthristian2y ago0 comments

The PDFium plugin that was part of Chrome was based on C++ code from Foxit.

PDFjs was written in JS from day one, and (as far as I know) was not based on any previous PDF reader.

Maybe that's what I was thinking of. Thanks.

BTW, I didn't mean they necessarily used the actual Foxit code, but it was a starting point maybe reimplemented in JS.

cxr2y ago

In no sense is PDF.js related to Foxit except that they are both PDF readers.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse