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BBEdit and Atom.

OK, I've added an "Add PDF" button to open a file select dialog, which should let you load files without drag-and-drop. Please let me know how it works for you.

Thanks.

Glad to hear it. If you have any problems, or additional features you'd like to see, please post an issue on GitHub.

https://github.com/developingMagic/pdfassembler/issues

Thanks!

Not yet. That's been on my to-do list, but I didn't know how important it was. I'll move it to the top of my list and post agin once it's fixed.

Thanks for the feedback!

Nope, I definitely meant "client-side solution".

I wrote this library to work as part of an online service to help lawyers assemble Exhibits (www.magicexhibits.com).

The first version of that site uploaded everything to a server, where I used QPDF and Hummus to put everything together into a big .pdf, then downloaded the result. It worked, but it was slow.

The second version used an Emscripten encoded version of qpdf[0] to move part of the processing client-side (meaning into the browser), which made the processing faster. But even after compressing as much as possible, the Emscripten qpdf.js was 4mb, which made the site load time much slower.

So, finally, I wrote PDF Assembler, which loads fast and does almost all of what I need. If someone loads a document I can't process with JavaScript alone, like a .docx file, I still have to send that to a server to convert to a .pdf. But PDF Assembler does the majority of the processing right in the browser, which makes the site a LOT faster. And, as a nice side effect, our users like the improved privacy protection, because as long as all their input files are .pdfs, those files never leave their computer.

Personally, I use QPDF on the command line (in OS X) quite a bit, and I've also used PDFTk and Hummus on my local computer. But our users aren't as computer savvy, so it was important to make a solution for them that was as simple as possible - meaning one that didn't involve downloading and installing any software. So an SPA is an ideal solution for them, and an SPA that uploads as little as possible to the server is even better.

[0] https://github.com/jrmuizel/qpdf.js

Fixed. Thank you!