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Create and modify PDF documents in any JavaScript environment

6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2019-07-29 · latest 2026-02-09

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  1. Sounds like there's a fork where some maintenance is still going on: https://github.com/Hopding/pdf-lib/issues/1720
    comment by al2o3cr · 2026-02-09 · in Is the author of pdf-lib okay?
  2. 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…
    comment by stefnotch · 2025-05-04 · in Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor
  3. …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
  4. …specification, even open source projects [1]. [0] https://www.pdfa.org/resource/iso-32000-pdf/ [1] https://github.com/Hopding/pdf-lib#git-history-rewrite
  5. New Pure JavasScript low-level implementation to create and edit PDF files: https://github.com/Hopding/pdf-lib
    comment by dhollenbeck · 2019-07-29 · in OpenPDF 1.3.0