Mortar Project
Introduction
Project Mortar is aiming to explore the possibility to bring PDFium library and the Pepper API based Flash plugin into Firefox.
Team
Peter Van der Beken - Mortar Project Technical Lead/Architect
Evelyn Hung - Engineering Lead
Louis Chang - Platform Engineer
Ya-Chieh Wu - Platform Engineer
Bruce Sun - Platform Engineer
Luke Chang : Frontend Engineer
William Hsu - QA
Vance Chen - Engineering Program Manager
Implementation
The exploratory work we've done so far was done in a private repository for various reasons. We are unable to make that repository public yet, but we're working on creating a new public repository to track this work going forward. We will also file public tracking bugs for the remaining work. Stay tuned !
2016 H2 Planning and Milestones
We have successfully integrated Firefox with PDFium library and enabled basic PDF rendering functionalities. We see it as a proof of concept hence we will keep working on this project with the following implementation plan :
Current Status
We have successfully integrated Firefox with PDFium library and enabled basic PDF rendering functionalities. We see it as a proof of concept hence we will keep working on this project with the following implementation plan :
2016 H2 Goals
We are going to complete the following functionalities by the end of 2016
- First/Last page
- Previous/Next Page
- Jump to Page
- Rotate
- Zoom
- Automatic Zoom
- Page Width
- Fit Page
- Actual Size
- 50%, 75%, 100%, 125%, 150%, 200%, 300%, 400%
- Find
- Full Screen
- Document outline
- Form input
- Image/text copy/select/paste
2017 H1 Goals
For 2017 H1, we plan to implement the following advanced PDF Viewer features.
- Save document
- Form submission
Release Channel
TBD, most likely will ride the Firefox release train as a system add-on
Reference Link
PDFium : https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/
What is "Mortar"(Not a weapon here) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortar_and_pestle