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