Ben Milanko

[Ben Milanko @BenMilanko]

@simonw Writing a pdf renderer and editor in Dart (for Flutter)

https://t.co/tqEAqcshLT

[Zen Bui @definev2]

Here is the post I mentioned! @jacobtechtavern creates truly top-notch content 🔥🔥🔥

[Ben Milanko @BenMilanko]

@alihassan143co1 I've added a few more features for text editing in 1.2.3

What other text editing tools would you be looking for?

[Ben Milanko @BenMilanko]

Apple Pencil support is feeling good.

PencilKit-style stroke prediction but pure Dart. Extrapolates a lead ahead of the pen tip to hide latency, no native ink view. Plus pressure → variable-width strokes + double-tap tool switching

[Ben Milanko @BenMilanko]

DartPDF 1.2.2 - the background render worker now cancels superseded jobs mid-interpretation, so fast-scrolling huge CAD PDFs no longer hangs the UI. Plus view rotation, deeper zoom, and RTL text.

Pure-Dart PDF engine for Flutter: https://t.co/WyjFM82wyW

[Dominik Roszkowski @OrestesGaolin]

Platform Views in Flutter desktop on macOS are pretty solid these days. Resizing could be improved, though.

[Ben Milanko @BenMilanko]

@rebazdev Hey I think I've got it this time, could you see in the 1.2.2 release?

[Ben Milanko @BenMilanko]

Pretty incredible whats currently possible, this is a PDF renderer and editor written entirely in Dart. Runs cross platform with flutter, no-native PDF dependancies.

Correctly renders the Ghent PDF rendering suite and the PDF.js edge case suite.

[Ben Milanko @BenMilanko]

@rebazdev Thanks for checking this out, I'm working on this!
I'm not the best suited to test this out. How does it look on the latest demo? https://t.co/2IVr8SvxyR

[Ben Milanko @BenMilanko]

@OrestesGaolin The Dart package ecosystem is growing! I've been working on a pdf renderer and editor that doesn't need an outside library like pdfium. (Still needs dart:ui)

https://t.co/tqEAqcshLT

[Ben Milanko @BenMilanko]

@jezell @espresso3389

I decided it was worth having a separate home for this.

I spent a bit of time optimising and eliminating jank. Think its in a pretty good spot now.

https://t.co/haaO53AA62

[Ben Milanko @BenMilanko]

@espresso3389 @jezell Yeah I'd like something that could run server side to e.g. generate PDF thumbnails, but dart:ui won't resolve.

[Ben Milanko @BenMilanko]

@espresso3389 @jezell Just released v1 of the library https://t.co/8zULwawf3b

[Ben Milanko @BenMilanko]

@espresso3389 @jezell Very cool! I'm working on some fixes and optimisations now and improving the coverage against the PDF js test sheets. Most of the legibility rendering issues resolved.

https://t.co/6hncHplQKs

[Ben Milanko @BenMilanko]

@HowToAI_ I think the moat is getting smaller.

I made an open source pdf renderer and editor in the same framework (flutter and dart).

https://t.co/2IVr8SvxyR

[Ben Milanko @BenMilanko]

@jezell Thanks! I really wanted a first class PDF viewer and editor for flutter without trying to juggle a heap of native libraries or pay a lot for something like PSPDFKit (which even then won't work on flutter desktop)

[Ben Milanko @BenMilanko]

@jezell More or less from scratch. I focused on pointing it at a few test sets like the Ghent PDF test set and the PDF.js edge case set.

Repo is here if you want to check it out https://t.co/tqEAqcshLT

[Ben Milanko @BenMilanko]

Pub Dev package https://t.co/8zULwawf3b

and demo are up
https://t.co/2IVr8SvxyR

[Ben Milanko @BenMilanko]

@jezell Huge, can't wait to dedupe all my shared Typescript and Dart code.