Commenting the article itself: If I click on the link that is supposed to show me a pixel perfect PDF in my FF 5 instance, I get a lot of gibberish (misaligned braces, text that overlaps) that is most certainly not part of the original PDF.
So - while I'd love to see something like this in the future, the author seems to see wildly different results than I do. For now, this _fails_ the pixel-perfect test and just about passes the readable test.
Thank you for pointing this out. I was too eager to see it in action and - after skimming the article and obviously missing that clause - proceeded to hit the nice blue "read the JavaScript paper with pdf.js online, too" in the paragraph before the quote that contains the statement about nightlies.
My bad, mea culpa.
I won't run a nightly on my main machine to give it a try, but awesome if it made the leap to pixel perfect between FF 5 and current builds.
Apparently there's a number of bugs with Firefox's implementation of canvas and web fonts that were fixed for FF7. They rely on those fixes to get correct behavior.
Commenting the article itself: If I click on the link that is supposed to show me a pixel perfect PDF in my FF 5 instance, I get a lot of gibberish (misaligned braces, text that overlaps) that is most certainly not part of the original PDF.
So - while I'd love to see something like this in the future, the author seems to see wildly different results than I do. For now, this _fails_ the pixel-perfect test and just about passes the readable test.