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by IntelliAvatar 177 days ago
3KB is wild. What features did you intentionally leave out to get this small?
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Not the author, but generating PDFs is much, much simpler than parsing PDFs
That makes sense. I was mostly curious about what explicit trade-offs the author chose beyond “generation only” — e.g. fonts, Unicode, images, compression, etc.

Would be interesting to see a concrete “not supported” list from the author.

Support for more than 7-bit ASCII characters. :)
It only supports Helvetica!
utf-8