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Re: Show HN: PNG to PDF Conversion in the Browser

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Post by growt »

driverdan wrote: post #16

Why would you want to convert a PNG to PDF? I don't understand the point.

As I wrote above, I build a bunch of converters. If PNG to PDF has no use for you, then maybe heic to jpg, or tiff to png, or webp to jpg? If you already have a quick and good solution for all of these (or you never need to convert in any of those ways), then that's fine too.

Re: Show HN: PNG to PDF Conversion in the Browser

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Post by Tagbert »

growt wrote: post #11
jiffygist wrote: post #8

Why should it be A4 instead of the same dimensions as png?

Mostly because it's the common format for documents where I live. Also you can add multiple images with different dimensions and they will all be scaled to fit A4. But I will probably add different dimensions for other countries in the future.

Being tied to specific paper sizes is one of the biggest limitations of PDF. I run into this a lot when people try to distribute documents as PDF. There are a lot of assumptions built in when a PDF is generated.
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