Purdy with Marty Jones

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