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

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
• Print
• 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