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The lack of a good PDF editor in Linux has always seemed strange to me, considering the relative frequency of "fiddle with a PDF" tasks like splicing pages and so on. Sure you can do it with Pdftk (or stapler these days), and a mish-mash of pdfinfo, Imagemagick and so on but the GUI programs mostly seem pretty bad offerings considering they're a fairly thin shell around library operations.
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have you tried installing it as a PWA, much less work :-) but i will write it in our product backlog
I have not. I will look into it later. The issue that many people were raising is with regards to privacy (not saying your app infringes upon it in any way). If PWA deployment can ensure that the app truly stays offline, then that’s a good thing. I personally like open source better, as it is easier to examine the inner workings of the app. It also helps tech-savvy users fix bugs and verify that it doesn’t do anythin…
Semi related: I have been looking far and wide for a tool that replicates Acrobat's /fill and sign/ feature, allowing me to fill out NON-form-fillable PDFs. Something where I can fill it out, save, and then open up later to edit and add/remove previous additions. Adobe as a business, their pushiness about creating an account and the fact that they bundle McAfee's shitware with Acrobat never sat well with me, so I'd l…
I do not understand why Microsoft still does not offer something similar to macOS’s Preview app.
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In the most unintuitive ways possible.
The fact that you can have a wonderful signature stamp, but the only way to get the image into the system is to hold an image up to your webcam is insane to me. I have a perfect png signature with transparency, but there's no way to import it.
Big fan of offline tools. I have a small collection of tools at https://www.webutils.app/ and have been meaning to add pdf tools for a while.
Can you please explain why? I care about privacy and security, and this trend seems like we're going backwards. If something needs network access, web apps make sense. But I liked offline tools better when we called them "programs". Web apps to me seem like they turn the web browser into an operating system. I already have an OS.
Big fan of the idea of offline in-browser tools: works on any device, and "installing" the program is as simple as visiting a webpage or opening the saved HTML file. This one uses WebAssembly, but even that isn't necessary: I wrote a couple of PDF tools for my own use that simply use pdf-lib: https://shreevatsa.net/pdf-pages/ https://shreevatsa.net/pdf-unspread/
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I’d have read that just like you did. More context always helps. I guess another (lengthy) way to write that - can be - “I just created my HN account to post this comment”.
The green username on hackernews + the username itself was decent context.
Big fan of the idea of offline in-browser tools: works on any device, and "installing" the program is as simple as visiting a webpage or opening the saved HTML file. This one uses WebAssembly, but even that isn't necessary: I wrote a couple of PDF tools for my own use that simply use pdf-lib: https://shreevatsa.net/pdf-pages/ https://shreevatsa.net/pdf-unspread/
When I decided on a local html for the app, I wanted something that did not require installing a language like python, did not require installing, and would work on Windows and Mac.