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by adg001 1273 days ago
In my opinion this could turn in a top seller – and I wish you so – if only you could add the means to sync Hyperpaper Planner to other calendars, such as Apple's and Google's ones.

I would typically need to quickly import calendar files related to the various online events I have to take part. And the planner should account for the differences in time zones, so that I do not have to.
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yunohn 1273 days ago
It’s a PDF, not a web app.
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adg001 1273 days ago
Not a big deal. You can edit a PDF programmatically, a la pdfcpu [0] or similar.

[0] https://pdfcpu.io/generate/create

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watersb 1273 days ago
PDF can embed scripts, but I haven't done this in a long time and I imagine that apps-in-PDF would expose wonky unmaintained code paths in a renderer.

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/applying-actions-scrip...

Also search for "PDF JavaScript"...

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napier 1273 days ago
Your point is? Various methods exist for running OCR on PDFs and then parsing the data and transforming it for structured input into other systems. Could be a periodic sync to the middleware; i.e. daily or at user's preference via emailing the doc.
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