Re:Show HN: I made a simple PDF text editor
by bla3 on Sunday May 31, 2020 @12:25PM
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Finding a font that matches the look of letters in the vicinity of the edit on Google Fonts or similar and embedding the missing characters from that font seems doable and should work pretty well.
Figuring out more global properties like multi-column layouts and reflowing text is a much harder problem.
Figuring out more global properties like multi-column layouts and reflowing text is a much harder problem.