Allen Wyma talks with Marty Jones, creator of Purdy. Purdy is an experimental PDF renderer built on top of WebGPU.

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Timestamps

[@0:55] - Marty’s Background
[@4:06] - What sparked Marty’s interest in PDFs
[@6:21] - What kind of primitives are built into PDF?
[@8:56] - How to solve edge cases in PDFs?
[@11:54] - Property-based testing
[@16:54] - The deciding factor that got Marty into creating his library.
[@19:59] - What is Web GPU
[@22:13] - Marty’s goal with PDF JS
[@24:08] - Why use PDF JS?
[@29:02] - Why Marty used Rust instead of JavaScript
[@30:15] - What’s next with PDF JS?
[@36:51] - Legalities of PDFs
[@41:42] - How to reach Marty


Other Resources

Marty’s Github
What is unique about PDF rendering?


Credits
Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Plangora

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma