PEP – An open source PDF editor for Mac

Re:PEP – An open source PDF editor for Mac by Gys on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @07:29AM (#24479998)

Adding a roadmap with potential features would be nice. Otherwise one is actually asking for financing a personal pet project. A list of existing alternatives (incl MacOS Preview) could be added and an explanation why this project will be different (or ideally: better).

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Re:PEP – An open source PDF editor for Mac by insensible on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @07:39AM (#24480066)

Yes, sell me on the problem you are solving, sell me on the technology opportunity, sell me on your approach, help me feel a sense of mission and curiosity.

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Re:PEP – An open source PDF editor for Mac by narwally on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @12:27PM (#24483142)

Isn't Preview limited to just annotations, or does it also do editing?

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Re:PEP – An open source PDF editor for Mac by JKCalhoun on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @01:17PM (#24483822)

Aside from annotating, Preview can crop, reorder, rotate, delete, and insert pages in a PDF.

But at its core, it does not "non-destructively" edit the dictionaries and object graph of the original PDF. Instead, it replays the original PDF into a new PDF context.

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Re:PEP – An open source PDF editor for Mac by threcius on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @07:46AM (#24480125)

Thank you for your recommendation, I think a road map is too early at this stage, but at some later point, i will at one.

And for the alternatives, i think this is a good idea.

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