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Comment by tough 4 days ago

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minor nit: cmd+z is ctrl+z in macos, which felt counter-intuitive on an editor

IANAL: idk if lawyers dont do pdfs but tried some research papers and PDF rendering could use some love (MacOS)

piker 4 days ago

Noted, and to be fixed. Thank you

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  • tough 4 days ago

    I had edited prior message but would be great if supported PDF rendering as good as docx! (for research mostly, not a lawyer)

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    • piker 4 days ago

      One thing it does is cast the PDF to grayscale to render for speed (lawyers rarely care about the color of a legal doc in PDF), so perhaps I'll make that an adjustable setting which will trade off speed for clarity. Otherwise, it uses PDFium for PDF rendering so it should come out just as well as what you see in a Chromium-based browser.

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    • yauneyz 4 days ago

      If this is Electron, try pdf.js - really good rendering, you can create a text layer (for text selection, etc). Probably the best result per effort you can get

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