Additional Learning Resources

Publications

You can read more about PDF.js here:

• http://andreasgal.com/2011/06/15/pdf-js/
• http://blog.mozilla.com/cjones/2011/06/15/overview-of-pdf-js-guts/

Presentations

Videos:

• Julian Viereck – Zurich GTUG 2011, http://blog.mozilla.org/labs/2011/10/video-what-is-pdf-js/
• Andreas Gal – JSConf.eu, 2011, http://blip.tv/jsconfeu/andreas-gal-pdf-js-5723942
• Brendan Dahl - FOSDEM 2013, https://air.mozilla.org/pdfjs-firefoxs-html5-pdf-viewer/
• Brendan Dahl - HTML5DevConf 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yLzRoErOHw
• Mack Duan - Optimizing PDF.js, Mozilla, 2013, https://air.mozilla.org/intern-pdfjs/

Slides:

• http://jviereck.github.com/slides/2012_07_berlinjs/index.html
• Yury Delendik - TTF 2012, Evolving with Web Standards. The Story of PDF.JS.
• Brendan Dahl - HTML5DevConf 2013, http://brendandahl.github.io/speaking-events/2013-html5-dev-conf

PDF-related resources

A really basic overview of PDF is described here:

• http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/livecycle/lc_pdf_overview_format.pdf

Summary of the PDF file format:

• http://www.planetpdf.com/developer/article.asp?ContentID=navigating_the_internal_struct

The PDF specification itself:

• http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf
• http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/pdf/pdfs/pdf_reference_1-7.pdf

Test files:

• http://acroeng.adobe.com/wp/

Presentations:

• http://labs.appligent.com/files/2013/03/recognizing_malformed_pdf_f.pdf

Examples

• https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/tree/master/examples/learning
• https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/tree/master/examples/components

Related projects

Open source projects:

• http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
• http://www.mupdf.com/