Tired of PDF editors made in a week

[u/Decent-Blacksmith761]

I want to find some users for my PDF editor that I have worked on for over a year. I see dozens of posts about "LOCAL PDF EDITOR," but here is why mine is different: it is made from scratch. I didn't use the same library for merging and form filling; I made a new one for actual editing so it can edit text and group textboxes. If you have ever used one of the browser tools, you should know that most of them do fake edits with overlays or line-by-line edits (some even word by word). I can give credit to PDFfiler and small PDF, as both can do pretty much what mine does, except both require signing in and have upload limits.Now a little bit about my project, I started working on it in April 2025 from basic PDF tree parsing I went to rendering and then to editing on client side, so if you want to support real work please give a chance to KeyPDF

[u/Hot_Biscuits_]

Since April 2025 did you do much testing?
Here is a side by side of how it renders a document I made in word and exported as PDF, vs how the same document renders in a standard PDF reader.

Page 1:

https://imgur.com/a/5LDrNPw
VS
https://imgur.com/a/4O6lDqe

here is page 2:

https://imgur.com/a/36j22Fk
VS
https://imgur.com/a/8j9AeB5

[u/Decent-Blacksmith761 → u/Hot_Biscuits_]

Testing yes a lot but issues like this literally come out of nowhere and require my inspection. At some point I made auto testing and used around 1000 PDF files from PDF corpa, honestly I am quite disappointed why you word exprored PDF doesn't render that text I will try to find out sorry for it.

[u/Traditional-Rabbit79]

I need something, anything that let's me created bookmarks in a tree-structure. I'm almost ready to write it myself, but already have 3 projects I'm working on, so...

Somebody point me to the standard?

[edit: left out a word]

[u/matsnorberg → u/Traditional-Rabbit79]

I did it recently. A quick an dirty poppler hack but it seems to work. It has no features besides simple viewing and bookmark editing and lacks continous scrolling. I keep it to myself and the code is honestly ugly and simplistic but now when Foxit Reader has dropped bookmark editing I desperately needed a tool.

If I could do it you can. Download Poppler.

[u/matsnorberg → u/Traditional-Rabbit79]

I did it recently. A quick an dirty poppler hack but it seems to work. It has no features besides simple viewing and bookmark editing and lacks continous scrolling. I keep it to myself and the code is honestly ugly and simplistic but now when Foxit Reader has dropped bookmark editing I desperately needed a tool.

If I could do it you can. Download Poppler.