David Gonzalez
1 min readDec 22, 2020

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Hi Marc!

I appreciate your interest about making this solution available for everyone.

But I consider this solution as a workaround : this is acceptable only if you edit a pdf one time.

When studying solutions, we have to analyse benefits and drawbacks in a global overview.

Mine comes with some limitations:

- degrade quality each time you edit a pdf (because it transform pdf pages into images)

- an edited pdf file cannot be used properly in another pdf editing tool (Adobe Illustrator, Acrobat reader, Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, and so on…)

Consequently a good pdf edition library should store in memory a tree representing all pdf components, like used pdf creation library does.

Added to that, in my opinion, the pub package website contains too much unfinished or poorly designed libraries : it looks more workarounds or proof of concept (POC) than libraries. And I don’t want to contribute to that mess.

So in another words: a workaround should stay a workaround, as a POC should stay a POC ;)

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David Gonzalez
David Gonzalez

Written by David Gonzalez

Hi, I’m David, a french mobile applications developer. As a freelance, I work on Android and iOS applications since 2010. I also work on Flutter now !

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