[IPOL discuss] Ipol article - flexpaper HTML5

[Miguel Colom]

FlexPaper needs the PDF converted into a set of images, as Nicolas noted,
and pdfjs is full HTML5 compliant and most browsers support this standard
[1].

Unless problems are found with pdfjs, I think it's a good decision to use it.

Anyway, we should start a test before deciding anything.

Best,
Miguel

[1] http://html5test.com/results.html

> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 04:35:34PM +0100, Simon Loic wrote:
>> Good point but a priori pdfjs is also html5 compliant. And I think that
>> the
>> html5 version of FlexPaper is not free of charge. BTW if we want to
>> remove
>> the FlexPaper logo I guess we can as well pay fees. Apparently the
>> unlimited licence costs 845 USD, so I guess we can afford it.
>
> The unbranded version with HTML5 support (they call it AdaptativeUI
> plugin) for a single domain (ipol.im) costs 135USD. It is able to
> display a PDF in a Flash or HTML5 object, and the default/fallback are
> configurable.
>
> I had a quick look at the HTML5 code[1] and doc[2], it seems to
> require the PDF file to be converted to a set of PNG rendering of the
> pages plus a json encoding of the text content oin addition to the SWF
> conversion.