Online PDF Viewer

Goal

Create a PDF viewer to consult online an ebook library.

Existing softwares in PHP

• Online viewer for PDF, PostScript and Word
• Writing a Web-based PDF Viewer
  Originally I started from parts of this one which was more "educational"

Yet another one

• Convert documents from online library, not from user selection/upload
• No limitation on nr of pages or filesize
• No overhead of intensive MySql logging
• AJAX style with personal css instead of frames
• CSS inspired from LAYOUT TECHNIQUES: 3 columns, the holy grail
• Persistant cache (as set of documents is fixed) while limited in size
• Conversion on demand by batches of 10 pages in order to support large documents
• Smoother zooming
• Rotation support
• Text mode support (much faster and allows copy/paste)
• Trim support (remove blank area around the generated document)

Todo

• center text mode
• text mode robust to page content (php code,...)
• Search in document
• Search in all documents (coupled with sth like http://swish-e.org ?)