mozilla/pdf.js — Issue #1082: Give more vertical space to PDF pages
Author: cgjones
Created: 2012-01-15 03:42:28+00:00
State: open

Unfortunately pretty much all computer monitors are naturally oriented in landscape, but almost all PDFs are naturally oriented in portrait. That means vertical space is at a premium, horizontal less so. And in addition, PDF.js runs inside web browsers, which already have a window title bar, tab bar, and URL bar.

If we could make the current top-of-the-page controls go to a left sidebar, and move the preview pane to the right (or something like that), it would add some more vertical space for viewing actual pages.

A complementary feature to this is dual-page view, but that only works well on very large monitors.

An even crazier idea would be for pdf.js to go full-screen, which is needed anyway for "slideshow"-style display.