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You generate a PDF and need to preview it on your web page. You realize you can't. Not without a giant PDF.js. Or perhaps you made a nice preview on Canvas, then you realize you ca…

I've been building a document layout engine called VMPrint from scratch in pure TypeScript. It does not use a browser, a DOM, or HTML. It has its own AST in structured JSON — pure …

I got tired of the last-mile problem in writing: I write in Markdown, but submitting a novel manuscript or screenplay means either wrestling with Word/InDesign, installing a multi-…

I beg to differ. People equate good writing with the cosmetics, which AI excels at, but it’s the substance that truly matters.

Its UI is too complicated for my taste. Besides, its screenplay support isn't perfect.

I'm not sure I understand what you are asking here. If it's some advanced feature, which is obviously out of my domain of expertise, you are welcome to participate and fork the pro…

AI helped me write the documentation because it does a better job than I ever could. I honestly wish I’d had AI to help me write my screenplay ten years ago.

I was an animation director, so I didn't do stunts. Sorry.

Who said I used HTML? It was impossible to write screenplay/manuscript in HTML and receive industry compliant outputs when printed/converted to PDF.

Because CSS is exactly what I wanted to avoid. I just needed predictable pager layout, and I didn't want to wrestle with CSS. Besides, this thing's tiny size allows it to run in a …

Why hide it?

And that's precisely why I'm neither a blockbuster director nor a massively paid "chief scientist", LOL. As for the strange sentences? Before the web turned everything into paperle…

This project started from exactly there too until I couldn't push react-pdf any further. The MORE/CONT'D feature required by screenplay was impossible to implement with react-pdf's…

Exactly! That's someone speaking from experience, I can tell! :p And yes the tests are in there. And interestingly enough, because the engine emits its IR (in compressed JSON), I c…

Thanks for the correction. I'm actually not familiar with Prince, so I really can't tell. To be clear, VMPrint isn't meant to compete with established engines like that. It’s just …

Thank you for the kind words. I hope it becomes a useful part of your toolkit. It certainly is for my need to generate screenplays.

And what's the point of being right when it's slow and bloated? Come on, it works for a lot of use cases, and it doesn't work for some. And it's still evolving.

As someone who has spent decades in the lucid dreaming community researching consciousness (and created the SSILD technique), I could give you a very long, highly philosophical ans…

Good eye, you are right. A few others noticed this as well. It is a known trade off given the engine being pure JS and only 80K. The project is still at very early stage, and I'm d…

You are absolutely right about the Devanagari. That is a known trade-off at the moment. Because the core engine is strictly constrained to 88 KiB of pure JavaScript, it intentional…

You are completely right on all fronts. Thank you for taking a look at the code! You hit the exact architectural bottleneck. Right now, the engine uses Intl.Segmenter to find the g…

Incredible eye. You are absolutely right, and that is actually an artifact of the engine's current architecture! That screenshot includes the Hindi word 'देवनागरी' (Devanagari) and…

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