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The article links to a Google+ post for some reason and I can't find any other info. Isn't Foxit proprietary? I haven't used Chrome or Chromium in a while, but last time I did, they seemed to use the same PDF viewer. How could they include it in Chromium?



Chrome open sourced Foxit as Pdfium: https://www.foxitsoftware.com/blog/?p=641


Thanks, to be precise it's only the engine part of Foxit, the generator and renderer. The foxit itself is still pretty much proprietary software.

From the last 7 weeks commit history, I see only people associated with chromium. So may be foxit is not involved in developing pdfium anymore, or may be they're not developing in open and sync in once in a while.

https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/+log




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