[hyzyla]

Thanks for sharing your story! My goal was to have MVP as fast as possible; otherwise, I could lose interest in it. It is the biggest reason why I chose to use an existing parser instead of writing my own (I've initialized an empty Rust project on my OS for that )

Few things that I have in nice-to-do features list, but hard to implement without writing my own parser: - edit nodes (with XREF table update) - raw source editor - show actual position in source

[svat]

For editing, I was able to make some simple edits (not of individual objects, but things like removing or duplicating pages, or editing crop boxes) using pdf-lib instead of pdf.js: see for example (just right-click and "view source") https://shreevatsa.net/pdf-pages/ and https://shreevatsa.net/pdf-unspread/

For seeing the raw source, after using such things for a bit (e.g. the output HTML file generated by https://github.com/desgeeko/pdfsyntax which is very good), I'm starting to feel it's nice to look at the first few times / in some cases, but in the long run / for large PDFs, maybe it's not really so useful or worth it.