Why

Adobe pdf software sucks. All I want to do is view a pdf, add some text to it, and add signatures - all while using a non-clunky and choppy app. This is why I built phorgePDF - a lightweight pdf editor that’s fast and can let you do the following:

• Viewing a pdf (revolutionary, I know)
• Signing a document
• Reordering or deleting a few pages
• Highlighting text
• Adding text

Organization

At a high level, the app consists of a Rust backend and a React + TS frontend (via Tauri). Thus, we should we should define a boundary that makes sense:

FE Separations

• Features that are obviously related to rendering UI components like navbars, buttons, and etc.
• Networking and dealing with externals
  • Ex: printing
• Displaying rendered PDFs
  • Note: the FE is not actually rendering edits/changes to the PDF, but almost like it’s an image or a snapshot

BE Separations (Rust layer)

• Handle anything computational wrt PDFs
  • I.e: processing edits and signatures
  • The goal is to give the frontend a file that it can simply display

Development

• [ ] Viewing a pdf

  • [x] Basic view
  • [x] Page detail
    • [x] Page counter
    • [x] Highlight text
  • [ ] View protected pdfs
  • [ ] Advanced page navigation

    • [ ] Move navbar to be bottom aligned

    • [ ] Implement nav spec

      Navigation Spec v0

• [ ] Signing a document

  • [ ] Saving pdf
  • [ ] Add signature

• [ ] Reordering or deleting a few pages

• [ ] Highlighting text