Post #2502039

2026-02-28 19:26 UTC

@amir@dragonscave.space I don't have to deal with too many PDFs daily, admittedly, but the fact that you see the exact same bug across different PDF renderers makes me think it's not entirely my fault. That's not to say it's not my bug to solve, but the fact that both pdfium and hayro, two industry-grade PDF parsing solutions, do the same thing, makes me think something else fishy is going on.

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@amir@dragonscave.space 2026-02-28 19:28

@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space Fortunately Epub and DAISY are my major formats, but I still get those pesky PDF files from time to time. Only Bookworm can take care of those PDF files, but since I don't have it installed as it's effectively defunct, I can't tell how. At any event, thanks for your exemplary efforts with Paperback. It's hugely helpful!

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@x0@dragonscave.space 2026-02-28 19:29

@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space @amir@dragonscave.space Like the fact that PDF is just an objectively terrible format for anything but visual preservation. I think it *still* doesn't support reflow does it? It probably just doesn't really have a notion of paragraphs to even be navigated in those documents, and only better authoring can fix that.

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