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Convert a PDF to PowerPoint (.pptx) entirely in the browser

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25 May
TIL a PowerPoint file is just a zip — so I converted .pptx to Word entirely in the browser

<p>Most file converters upload your files to a server. I wanted to see how far I could get without one. Turns out: all the way.<br /> The trick is that Office files aren't really

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9 May
Image to PDF in the Browser - No Libraries, No Backend

<p>As Steve Jobs said, "<strong><em>Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.</em></strong>"</p> <p>Converting an image to PDF should work like

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23 Jul
Building a Browser-Based Tiled Poster PDF Generator

<p>A tiled poster generator looks simple from the outside: load an image, choose a paper size, and download a PDF. The implementation becomes more interesting when the entire

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19 May
I benchmarked 6 WASM image codecs in the browser. Here is what beats the server.

<h2> TL;DR </h2> <p>Modern WebAssembly codecs (MozJPEG, libavif, OxiPNG/imagequant, libwebp, gifsicle, SVGO) now run fast enough in the browser that you can ship a real

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