philjohnson

8 ms·

61.
by philjohnson 1y ago
Me :) It runs on an very inexpensive VPS. There's no VCs or anything with this and since all processing happens on the users device, my costs won't really change at all. Still figuring out potential monetization. Is there anything
62.
by philjohnson 1y ago
Thanks! > trust All fair points that you're making. I see no reason I would change my mind to send PDFs to the server, but I understand your concerns. If I'm reading in between the lines of what you're saying, that the way
63.
by philjohnson 1y ago
You're encountering this error if the document uploaded is encrypted. I previously supported it, but ran into issues re-encrypting the PDF when you download. I'll fix this soon so it is supported properly. In the mean time I'
64.
by philjohnson 1y ago
No plans to open source at the moment, but I might consider it. I just added a Subscribe button to support further development of the software and get access to premium features. Which features (if any) that if added would you be willing to
65.
by philjohnson 1y ago
It's not open source at the moment, but I would consider it. Just have to think through it as once you go open-source it doesn't go over too well to go back. So, if I want to open source it, I want to be sure. I'm sure some m
66.
by philjohnson 1y ago
I'll be adding compression support for BreezePDF, so this can be done in a click
67.
by philjohnson 1y ago
not yet available as open source. Open-source has two main purposes I think: trust, and customizing/integrating it into other products. On the first part, since everything happens in the browser, anyone can see the html/javascript
68.
by philjohnson 1y ago
Thank you! I'll take a look at improving rendering embedded font support. And that's a neat idea to be able to download it for offline, I'll give some thought to that. Appreciate your feedback!
69.
by philjohnson 1y ago
Fair point. I added a contact email in the upper right for feedback and sponsorship. Let's see what happens
70.
by philjohnson 1y ago
Thanks! Ask to prevent accidentally closing the tab is a great suggestion, I just added it! Resizing pictures and signatures is definitely something I'll add very soon.
71.
by philjohnson 1y ago
Hm, mind describing more about how it wraps? Assuming you're referring to text you added? I haven't encountered that myself, but will definitely try and fix. And thanks!
72.
by philjohnson 1y ago
I developed another tool pdfredactoronline.com that does this. Full redaction/removal of content, not just blacking out text. I didn't include it in this tool for now due to the APGL license of the library that enables the redacti
73.
by philjohnson 1y ago
Thanks! Text comments, redaction and flattening are definitely features I'll add. One way it'll avoid enshitification is that I have no VCs or anything like that, it's just me. So I only answer to actual users. My hunch is th
74.
by philjohnson 1y ago
Right now the signatures are digital ink, but I plan on adding signatures with certificates so it's more official.
75.
by philjohnson 1y ago
PDF editor is used as a broadly encompassing term. Yes, other tools can edit existing text, but they upload your PDF to their servers, so it's not private if that's something you care about. There isn't anything off the shelf
76.
by philjohnson 1y ago
It's accessible via a website so that you don't have to download anything, and everything running in your browser means the PDF never leaves your device, so it's 100% private.
77.
by philjohnson 1y ago
There's no VC backing behind this, it's just me. And it's actually a win-win to have all the PDF editing happen in the browser. It both offloads resource usage to a local computer and makes it private. All I have to do is ren
78.
by philjohnson 1y ago
I might post the repo, but if you don't trust it you can just open the Network inspection tab and you'll see that zero network requests are made when you edit a PDF
79.
by philjohnson 1y ago
(1) Yes, I am very familiar with the WASM compilation of MuPDF. It's got a lot of great features. I actually built another product pdfredactoronline.com that does redaction fully in the browser using the MuPDF WASM compilation. The rea
80.
by philjohnson 1y ago
Scrolling is now fixed! And just updated so that if you click outside modal it closes. Working on update now so you can edit text you've already added. Agree with you regarding fonts, bolding underlining etc. and having instant page de
81.
by philjohnson 1y ago
Thanks! I fixed the scrolling issue
82.
by philjohnson 1y ago
check out pdfredactoronline.com I also built that. I had to make it separate for now as it's using MuPDF JS library which has APGL licensing, but I might add it in here if it seems I can add it while still complying.
83.
by philjohnson 1y ago
Fixed now!
84.
by philjohnson 1y ago
yes, that's why the description says "add text" not edit :) there aren't existing packages that can edit existing PDF text in the browser, but I'll do it myself sometime soon
85.
Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor(breezepdf.com)
791 points by philjohnson 1y ago|182 comments