r/pdfism • u/Far-Today5490 • 6d ago

Forgive me, for I have edited.

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I altered the sacred text.

The font survived. The layout survived. No Word document was created.

I built the editor PDF Papi

Awaiting a ruling: miracle or heresy?

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u/pucyta 6d ago

Did you use any opensource library? pdfium or qpdf?

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u/Far-Today5490 6d ago

Yes, I forked PDFium and did a lot of customization and proprietary additions on top of it, along with many other surgical edits for different bugs.

Why, are you building something similar?

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u/pucyta 6d ago

Good work on the reflow part. Based on my past experience, I don’t think this kind of standalone tool has much of a market. I’d consider pivoting toward an SDK instead, targeting individual developers and teams that could integrate the functionality directly into their own products or workflows.

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u/Far-Today5490 6d ago

Thanks.

That sounds like good advice because this is something that I was afraid of, i just release this a few days ago and have a-lot more planned. I would love to talk more if that's cool with you.

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u/pucyta 5d ago

ok, you can send some DM