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philjohnson

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    Comment #47581159

    Thank you!

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    Comment #47574724

    Nope. 3 free per month. You'd know that if you tried it. Commonly known as a "free plan"

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    Comment #47567555

    Bad analogy Imagine a pizza place where you can try three slices for free before you order one? Or that you can make a pizza at the shop, add and remove topping as you wish until y…

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    Comment #47567422

    Show HN is show your product. That's what I'm doing. It's not an open source forum. The only shilling is mentioning other products on someone else's post...

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    Comment #47567304

    [flagged]

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    Comment #47567036

    First thing is it was released much after BreezePDF was. You could make the same argument with Adobe or any other PDF software. Why doesn't everyone use all use BentoPDF? Things li…

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    Comment #47566498

    Font change for text editing is fixed now

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    Comment #47566354

    Thanks for trying it! In what scenario was undo not working? If you can provide that context, I can dig into it more as to what wasn't undoing properly. For text editing, I see the…

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    Comment #47566257

    Far from it haha Some features took a longggg time to do, such as table extraction, text editing, and (surprisingly) preserving positioning of elements (text, images etc.) when rot…

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    Comment #47566188

    Thanks! Feel free to send feedback to joe@breezepdf.com if you get the chance to try it. Regarding your concern, if a manipulation of the PDF doesn't meet the standard specificatio…

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    Comment #47566029

    Yes, it definitely is. It handles everything from the basics like editing, signing, and merging to more advanced stuff like OCR, redaction, and digital certificates all in a clean …

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    Comment #47565904

    Awesome! Would love to get your feedback once you try it.

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    Comment #47565893

    Free is still in this post. It's free to use, you can use the editor as much as you want with 40+ tools. Just a limit of 3 exports.

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    Comment #47565358

    I made a first version of it if you want to check it out! It's under the "markup" tab

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    Comment #47564669

    Neat idea. Basically an "Enhance Readability" button. I'm looking into how it can be done, will report back.

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    Comment #47564605

    Yes, yesterday's post got marked as duplicate because I didn't reference the previous post from last year. I got permission from the HN moderator tomhow to repost it again with the…

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    Comment #47563314

    Good suggestion! I'll look into implementing that.

  20. story
    Show HN: BreezePDF – Free, in-browser PDF editor

    BreezePDF lets you edit, sign, merge, compress, redact, OCR, fill forms, extract tables, and use 30+ more PDF tools — all in the browser, no sign-up. Files never leave your compute…

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    Comment #47559367

    Btw this is fixed now!

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    Comment #47558991

    I sent an email to the HN email with the updated description since time expired to update it myself. Take a look, thanks!

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    Comment #47558384

    You can simply open the network requests and verify for yourself. Or download the desktop version

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    Comment #47557223

    It's not false at all. You don't have to sign up to use the product. No sign up doesn't mean no limitations.

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    Comment #47556997

    I'd get sued for wording on Hacker News? The website has it's own copy anyways which goes into more detail than an HN post