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by wolverine876 815 days ago
Yes, but I think Mozilla may have started with code from Foxit.
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thristian 815 days ago
The PDFium plugin that was part of Chrome was based on C++ code from Foxit.

PDFjs was written in JS from day one, and (as far as I know) was not based on any previous PDF reader.

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wolverine876 815 days ago
Maybe that's what I was thinking of. Thanks.

BTW, I didn't mean they necessarily used the actual Foxit code, but it was a starting point maybe reimplemented in JS.

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cxr 814 days ago
In no sense is PDF.js related to Foxit except that they are both PDF readers.
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