Community PDF Project (was Revenue and the Open Source edition)

[Roger Eller]

Android is still in need of an in-stack PDF display feature.  The default
behavior is to pass it to a user-installed PDF viewer app.

~Roger


On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
wrote:

> Kevin Miller wrote:
>
> > On 05/05/2016, 16:10, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> >
> >>Kevin Miller wrote:
> >>
> >> > ...basic display is already possible with the
> >> > browser included in all editions of LC.
> >>
> >> That's kind of a big deal. I'm not sure how so many of us missed
> >> that, but basic display on a card is all most people have been
> >> asking for. Super cool.
> >>
> >> Anyone here using that? Working well on the platforms you're
> >> deploying to?
> >
> > I am, and have been for some time as it happens!
>
> Seems most missed that in whatever Release Notes that was mentioned in.
>
> It never would have occurred to me that a browser engine would also
> include its own embedded PDF renderer, separate from any that might be
> included in the OS (and IIRC Windows doesn't include one out of the box).
>
> Providing a PDF renderer along with the rest of the HTML rendering with
> that browser engine is definitely something work noting in a bullet point
> somewhere.
>
>
> --
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Systems
>  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
>  ____________________________________________________________________
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