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by philjohnson 6mo ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "body"
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by philjohnson 6mo ago
Sorry about that! Fixing now
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by philjohnson 6mo ago
Well, if you aren't a developer you're not going install a PDF editor by going to GitHub, especially if having a desktop app means downloading the code yourself. Also, all of these you listed were created within the last 6 months,
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by philjohnson 6mo ago
Last year there were a couple features, but it was pretty limited. In the year since, I've added a ton more features, created desktop app and CLI. So it was a major overhaul since last time, which is why I posted it again
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Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor(breezepdf.com)
54 points by philjohnson 6mo ago|43 comments
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by philjohnson 6mo ago
Agree
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by philjohnson 6mo ago
Great point
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by philjohnson 1y ago
Got it, thanks for the explanation! When I add OCR I'll add the ability to search the OCR'd text within the document very soon when the downloadable version goes live. Stay tuned! I'll follow up in this thread once it's
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by philjohnson 1y ago
Glad to hear! Yes, OCR is definitely coming, though it'll be in the one-time payment downloadable version. I'm curious, what is your use case?
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by philjohnson 1y ago
Yes you can inspect it, just inspect source. Since everything runs in the browser, it's all inspectable.
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by philjohnson 1y ago
Thanks! It's not on GitHub because I don't desire for it to be redistributed by others. I will be releasing a downloadable desktop version (as a Progressive Web App) with even more features for a nominal one time payment. It makes
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by philjohnson 1y ago
Yes, that's a good way of framing it. Though technically the files are executed in the browser. Will be releasing downloadable desktop version soon.
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by philjohnson 1y ago
you're welcome!
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by philjohnson 1y ago
thanks!
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by philjohnson 1y ago
Yes, though both of those send documents to their server which might be a concern for some people. And most people working with PDFs wouldn't know how to setup stirling locally. BreezePDF doesn't send any data to the server, and f
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by philjohnson 1y ago
Seems cool! Thanks for sharing. Even though it's MIT licensed it's written in Java, so unfortunately I can't borrow any code, but it's nice for inspiration.
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by philjohnson 1y ago
Got it. The functionality that your after is something I'm definitely considering. It could have broad applications. I'm curious where you land on this after planning, would it be okay to follow up? You can send me a note through
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by philjohnson 1y ago
I’m glad it can be of use!
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by philjohnson 1y ago
Hopefully it will soon, the site is brand new :)
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by philjohnson 1y ago
Thanks! As of now I don’t plan on open sourcing. I think open sourcing software that I plan to monetize would create bad incentives. There are several companies of note that were very permissive early on with open source, and eventually aft
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by philjohnson 1y ago
Yeah there is currently a bit of overlap, but even with my software in it’s current state, it has password protecting a PDF, merging PDFs, reordering pages and adding input fields, all of which Firefox doesn’t have. And, I’m just getting st
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by philjohnson 1y ago
You’re welcome, and thanks for the kind words. Yes, lots of new features coming as well as a downloadable desktop version. A table is definitely something I will add! Thanks for the suggestion. Stay tuned!
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by philjohnson 1y ago
Not sure if you're referring to external or internal links but external ones are indeed preserved when once you download the modified PDF. I've updated it so that external links are also clickable when viewing the PDF in the edito
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by philjohnson 1y ago
Based on my understanding of what you're saying, here's my idea that I could build: You would add variables in the interface, and there would be a secure sandbox in the client where you can call the API of your headless CMS, and w
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by philjohnson 1y ago
Wrapping fixed! So now it only goes to a new line if you hit enter, which is probably the best approach. So the text should render the same in the editor as it does when it downloads. Thanks for the feedback, and let me know if you run into
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by philjohnson 1y ago
Sorry about that. Would you mind sharing the console logs? Perhaps it's showing an error that I can use to debug and fix. Thanks!
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by philjohnson 1y ago
The service worker functionality can be expressed as a PWA! Based on the comments I'm thinking of heading in that direction. As far as touchscreen PDF editing, that is 100% doable and something I plan on adding soon. Touchevents are su
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by philjohnson 1y ago
This is a great idea. I was actually just suggesting PWA with opt-in updates in another comment I was just replying to, so it's affirming to hear someone else suggest it as well. Love the changelog piece. Now the question is if people
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by philjohnson 1y ago
Thanks! The "offline only" app could be a PWA where you can access if if you're offline but I could even enforce disabling network requests in the code itself. Seems like the most straightforward solution to me. Could even ma
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by philjohnson 1y ago
Thanks, and cool project you've built! Yeah, you're right on that it's perception problem rather than tech. It's interesting because it's much less intuitive to inspect the code/network requests for a desktop a

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