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pdf-lib discussion
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Show HN: Free, 100% in browser PDF editor
I noticed that this tool doesn't preserve links within PDFs. ( https://github.com/Hopding/pdf-lib/issues/341 ) That's one of the main things I always try out with PDF editors, and it saddens me to see that this one also runs into that issue.
Fixes would be either using a different PDF library, or manually implementing that feature with the building blocks that pdf-lib provides.
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Pdf Generation Libraries Comparison
PDF Lib
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DEMO - Voice to PDF - Complete PDF documents with voice commands using the Claude 3 Opus API
writePdf: used for writing the final completed PDF after receiving the response from the Claude 3 Opus API, this uses the PDF-lib library to manipulate and modify the final file.
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Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs
I'm facing that same pain point of programmatic PDF filling. I noodled around in the PDF format and learned it's a bit difficult to deal with fonts and formatting. But I think this client-side library works well enough, as a start: https://pdf-lib.js.org/#:~:text=a%20single%20document.-,Fill...
I've also heard of one paid API that I forgot but seemed to work well, and this related service https://www.jotform.com/, and I also considered porting some server-side libraries to WASM. One day I'll collect all the libraries and findings in a blog post.
Are you looking to programmatically fill any PDF form by detecting the fields? Or are you filling one known PDF template?
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Show HN: PrivatePDF – minimal PDF editor that runs in the browser
Thanks! For PDF form filling, I use the APIs that pdf-lib [0] exposes. That includes text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdowns and options lists. Give it a try and let me know if you find a type of form field that's missing.
[0] https://github.com/Hopding/pdf-lib
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Thinking of throwing in the towel and hiring help - small website business
I do not know if some plugin exists, but maybe you have to take a look at https://pdf-lib.js.org/
- Does no one use PDF files anymore?? In need of a PDF generator package...
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Is node the right choice for HTML to PDF conversion?
PDFmake or pdf-lib would be the way to go in my opinion.
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I made a free PDF editor that works in your browser
Sure! You can build your own PDF editor with a combination of PDF.js and PDF-lib
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I built a wrapper to easily embed my PDF editor (SimplePDF) in any React app!
I stand on the shoulders of giants, namely PDF-lib, PDF-js and React-beautiful-DND – everything else is pretty much custom code.
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Hopding/pdf-lib is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of pdf-lib is TypeScript.
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