Google PDF Viewer
It's bloody amazing!
They actually render a PNG to your browser. So the page you see is just a picture of the PDF they've decoded on the server. That's not the cleaver part though!
They trap the mouse events (down/move/up) to fake the text selection and they trap the control+C, so you can select the text in the original PDF. This is despite the fact that your browser has no idea there's any text there :-o
Splendid stuff.
Geek-out!
They actually render a PNG to your browser. So the page you see is just a picture of the PDF they've decoded on the server. That's not the cleaver part though!
They trap the mouse events (down/move/up) to fake the text selection and they trap the control+C, so you can select the text in the original PDF. This is despite the fact that your browser has no idea there's any text there :-o
Splendid stuff.
Geek-out!
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