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by steipete 8y ago
Think construction plans, PowerPoint presentations, contracts - there are many documents that don't fit the classical Word document model.
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by steipete 8y ago
Metrics are required platforms (iOS, Android, Web, Windows, macOS, Linux), components (see matrix on https://pspdfkit.com/pdf-sdk/ ), number of users, number of server nodes (if Docker-based), number of apps/[sub]d
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by steipete 8y ago
Safari's PDF viewer doesn't allow you to annotate, especially not in real time with other users: https://pspdfkit.com/instant/ It's also quite basic when it comes to forms and often loses data. For cases
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by steipete 8y ago
Ha! Not sure if you've seen it, but we offer native SDKs for iOS, Android, Windows, macOS and Linux. Our Web SDK also has a version that uses PSPDFKit Server via a Docker container to get faster performance. The performance difference
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by steipete 8y ago
You can't compare small/micro-benchmarks that call into WebAssembly and then get the result with a larger full-stack application where parts are in JS and parts in WASM - both are highly interlinked. This is much more reflective o
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by steipete 8y ago
PDFBox is great for basic PDF editing in Java and Android-Land. If falls short when you need UI to render a document as well. We often see people upgrading to PSPDFKit for Android for that, more performance, and commercial support: http:&#
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by steipete 8y ago
Thanks for the link - it's linked in the post as well, certainly interesting to know. We also have someone working at our company who previously worked at 1Password and is really happy that he can use Slack again.
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How to Use Slack and Not Go Crazy(pspdfkit.com)
121 points by steipete 8y ago|98 comments
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by steipete 8y ago
The pointer events contribution comes from PSPDFKit, a company that sells PDF SDKs for mobile, desktop and web. It's used in https://pspdfkit.com/web/
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Introducing PDFXKit – A Drop-In Replacement for Apple's PDFKit(pspdfkit.com)
1 points by steipete 9y ago|0 comments
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by steipete 9y ago
PSPDFKit | REMOTE | Full-time | C++ PSPDFKit is the leading SDK for working with PDF files on Android, iOS and Web. We're trusted by Dropbox, Box and many Fortune 500 companies to take care of these tricky yet essential parts in their
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by steipete 9y ago
PSPDFKit for Web is a hybrid renderer. It can render on the client or server, depending on device capability and power. This allows you to view a 500MB+ file even on a slow connection via your smartphone, make notes that are instantly synce
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WebAssembly: A New Hope(pspdfkit.com)
199 points by steipete 9y ago|109 comments
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by steipete 9y ago
Maybe we really should bring https://pdfviewer.io to Windows. Looks like the default app is somewhat crap :P
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by steipete 11y ago
Is there a version for OS X?
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by steipete 11y ago
So, just like IDA from Hex-Rays, but way worse?
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Researching ResearchKit(petersteinberger.com)
2 points by steipete 12y ago|0 comments
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by steipete 12y ago
Somebody didn't give credit here when posting on HN. https://twitter.com/mplappert/status/575957042466320384
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by steipete 12y ago
Ruby people discovering algorithms ducks
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by steipete 12y ago
It's always possible that they have custom contracts with the creators of these open source projects; CocoaSplit could have offered them a custom license without x264 so that part can be dial-licensed.
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by steipete 12y ago
Sadly no tests, no documentation (except the documentation from FoxIt). Not even source code documentation.
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by steipete 14y ago
Seriously, WTF, Apple. They pass this but rejected another Torrent control program (for the more popular Transmission) http://www.iphonefreak.com/2009/05/apple-rejects-transmissio...
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by steipete 14y ago
Also see this guide how to use subscripting in Xcode 4.4 http://petersteinberger.com/blog/2012/using-subscripting-wit...
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DataKit: It's like Parse, just open source. Written in node.js and ObjC.(github.com)
52 points by steipete 15y ago|10 comments
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by steipete 15y ago
Hm, you did realize that the comment sounded very much as being sarcastic, did you?
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by steipete 15y ago
is there any changelog for 2.0?
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by steipete 15y ago
Don't forget the fact that they use Google's closed source software like GMaps, GMail, Market... and strictly they don't allow you to run that on custom firmware.
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by steipete 15y ago
It's not changing status anymore, did they already block the site's IP?
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by steipete 15y ago
NetBeans is still around? If you don't want to use Eclipse, try IntelliJ.
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by steipete 15y ago
I'm sorry, but why is this on Hacker News? The app looks like crap! Yellow folder icons? Come on! It seems as if it was written at the time where iOS 2 was new. Not bad, but just totally not able to compete with fancy apps like FlipBoard or

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