GitHub - mrmn2/PdfDing: Selfhosted PDF manager, viewer and editor offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices.
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Selfhosted PDF manager, viewer and editor offering a seamless user experience on multiple devices. - mrmn2/PdfDing

Hi /c/opensource,

I am developing PdfDing - a selfhosted PDF manager, viewer and editor. You can find the repo here.

Today I reached a big milestone as PdfDing reached over 600 stars on github. A good portion of these stars probably comes from being included in the favorite selfhosted apps launched in 2024 on selfh.st.

Here is a quick overview over the project’s features:

  • Seamless browser based PDF viewing on multiple devices. Remembers current position - continue where you stopped reading
  • Stay on top of your PDF collection with multi-level tagging, starring and archiving functionalities
  • Edit PDFs by adding annotations, highlighting and drawings
  • Clean, intuitive UI with dark mode, inverted color mode and custom theme colors
  • SSO support via OIDC
  • Share PDFs with an external audience via a link or a QR Code with optional access control
  • Markdown Notes
  • Progress bars show the reading progress of each PDF at a quick glance

As always I am happy if you star the repo or if someone wants to contribute.

  • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    11 hours ago

    It’s pretty interesting but there’s a few things that would make it a lot better:

    • I have absolutely no idea how to upload a PDF. I can only make lorem ipsum ones. It should have a lot more support for dropping files onto the webpage. Maybe even a quick upload box in your sidebar on the homepage.
    • The download button should not open a new tab or change the location or anything. Use the HTML5 ‘download’ attribute instead.
    • Increase (top/bottom) margins between PDF entries, it’s too condensed
    • The progress bar doesn’t automatically update when you close a PDF. When reading a PDF, I scroll to the bottom, click the little X in top right, and have to press F5 before seeing the progress bar update on the page.
    • Make it tell the browser that it’s already a darkmode website (for stuff like DarkReader)

    These are my suggestions. Good luck with your project. It looks pretty nice!

    • mrmn@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      6 hours ago

      Thank you for your feedback!

      1. this is only for the demo mode. I don’t want to have user files on the demo instance. On the log in screen of the demo instance, there is also note regarding this.
      2. this might be because of your browser. are you using a firefox based browser by any chance? I had the same issue and had to adjust this behavior in the settings.
      3. you are right. I already made the changes, so this is fixed.

      I’ll think about the other two suggestions.

      • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 hours ago
        1. Ah ok. I reread the information on the github readme and it said that “files will be deleted after 60 minutes”. So I thought I could try uploading.
        2. Yes. LibreWolf which is FireFox based. I do suggest using the download attribute though. People don’t like changing settings for specific applications.
        3. Coolio. Glad you are happy with the feedback.