A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) is a software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.
Back in early April, I noticed something odd – no matter what I changes I made to our code for generating fonts, they would always appear the same in our tests’ HTML output as they did before the change. I first assumed this was the IDE getting confused, but after clearing all of its caches…
A huge part of what makes our PDF to HTML5 converter so good is the amount of testing we do. As previously mentioned on our blog, we use a set of over 200 PDF files and compare the conversion output before and after any code changes. Most of this comparing is done automatically – we…
We’ve mentioned the Sanitiser for OpenType (OTS) before, but have never really gone into detail about why it exists, what it does, and why it occasionally makes our lives a little harder. Essentially, it is a library for making sure that the font rendering engines used by browsers don’t crash due to unusual OpenType or…
As any web developer knows, all browsers have their quirks. Here at IDR we aim to support as many browsers as possible on as many platforms as possible. The result is that we are constantly testing files in Chrome and Firefox on PC and Mac; Safari on Mac, iPhone and iPad; Internet Explorer; and Android’s…
One part of writing a PDF converter is making sure that the fonts embedded within the PDF are accessible to the target platform. For PDF to HTML, this means converting a range of fonts in different formats into a format accepted by browsers. This is a significant challenge due to the wide range of font…
