Note that this "free" PDF editor uses MuPDF under the hood which uses an AGPL license with the desktop version is being commercial.
Unless BreezePDF is open source, (it is not) it is in violation of MuPDFs AGPL license.
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#22Great idea, though I haven't had a chance to use it much (yet). I especially appreciate the end-user control of the documents - that they never leave the user's computer. A question for any newish PDF application developer: A valuable feature of PDFs is wide and long compability. What I output now should be fully readable and usable on any system and in 20 or maybe 50 years. [0] How do you have confidence that what y…
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 specification, it won't render properly in a PDF viewer as it is in the present day, let alone in 20 years. All PDF viewers/editors worth their salt adhere to the PDF spec. So as long as the PDF specification stays the same, anything that renders correctly now in a PDF viewer will render correctly in the future.
For something like compression, if the file reduces in size and the PDF renders the same (minus expected potential minor quality loss), then you have evidence right there that it worked successfully.
I built BreezePDF with PDF spec adhering libraries, so everything should be up to standards.
Let me know if that answers your question!
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#23I tried it. Looks great. Just few refinements from my side.
- Undo is not working. If you applied something it will be done. I had to reupload the pdf to again make the changes.
- I tried the text editing, it is having a defualt font family of `helvetica` and is automatically applied to the selected text once clicked and there is no way to undo or fix it.
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#24Is it a one shot AI generated site?
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 rotating the page in the downloaded file - PDF specification has a different orientation system than the web, so this was very intricate to get correct.
A lot of PDF editors have tools that all work independently, meaning you have to use each tool separately. My decision to add all the features I did while keeping it in one editor was because I felt that was a better user experience, but I means that all features become intertwined, which added a ton of complexity managing that.
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#25I tried it. Looks great. Just few refinements from my side. - Undo is not working. If you applied something it will be done. I had to reupload the pdf to again make the changes. - I tried the text editing, it is having a defualt font family of `helvetica` and is automatically applied to the selected text once clicked and there is no way to undo or fix it.
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 issue with that for some of the fonts. Fixing now
Sorry for the trouble!
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#26I tried it. Looks great. Just few refinements from my side. - Undo is not working. If you applied something it will be done. I had to reupload the pdf to again make the changes. - I tried the text editing, it is having a defualt font family of `helvetica` and is automatically applied to the selected text once clicked and there is no way to undo or fix it.
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 issue with that for some of the fonts. Fixing now Sorry for the trouble!
Font change for text editing is fixed now
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#29Some discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47555636
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 reference to last year's post.
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#30Some discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47555636
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 reference to last year's post.
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