Tag: rules

Overcoming PDF Problems With Firefox

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The other day I downloaded “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury as a free eBook, and tried to read it. I found that I cannot read much more than the titles of each chapter.

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I tried double-clicking and dragging, and saw that something appears on the screen, organized in paragraphs.

Right Click->Inspect Element

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Now, a sub-window is opened at the bottom of the screen:

You can see in that sub-window that some text in English appears in a ‘div’ element just under another ‘div’ element of class ‘textLayer’. To the right of the ‘Inspect Element’ sub-window you can see the CSS rules:

As you can see, the value of property ‘color’ is ‘transparent’, You can edit that property using the color selector or by overriding the text value.
Let’s set it to ‘black’.

Now, you can see the paragraphs.
You can change the opacity property of ‘div.textLayer’ from 0.2 to a higher value (up to 1) in order to read the text better.
Firefox is a great PDF viewer, but my browser couldn’t save the document with the changes: the result was a corrupt file that cannot be opened. I’d written about it to the newsgroup ‘mozilla.wishlist’ found on server ‘news.mozilla.org’. and they opened a ticket.

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