Hi,

I finally got around to migrate PdfDing from github to Codeberg. Hopefully, I will see some of you over there.

PdfDing is a PDF manager, viewer and editor that you can host yourself. It offers a seamless user experience on multiple devices. It's designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker

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[–] 2 points 2 months ago

Congrats! Less people in the shithub platform.

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  • 16 comments in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world view that post
    [–] 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    It's great to see more and more project leaving github!

    PS: "Live Demo" on https://www.pdfding.com/ is a dead link

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    Thanks a lot for your work!

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I love this software! With my ttRPG group we use it to manage our PDF character sheets ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    Good move ! Congrats on the app, I don't have a use for it, but people love it. Thank you for making it!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Cool!

    Im assuming you're unaffiliated with Linkding?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago

    At the beginning the project was heavily inspired by Linkding. If you were to pull an early version of PdfDing you would find that the UI is very similar to Linkding. That was also the reason why I named the project PdfDing. By now the UI is totally different and only the name remains.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Can it change the layout / reflow the text of scientific papers to be single column text? I'm still searching something that makes reading papers on tablets possible.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Have you tried koreader? It's not perfect, but if the screen is large enough it normally works pretty well. I use it on a Kobo reader, but it works on Android as well (not sure about iOS).

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Is it possible to point to a container folder to import from instead of uploading from the interface? I already have all my files in a folder structure on the server i'm running pdfding from.

    It seems quite good, would be very nice not to need to upload every file a second time.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It is possible to ingest PDFs via a consume folder. However consuming the files will cause them to be deleted. So I don't think this will be very helpful in your case. There is however a bulk upload feature in the UI, which allows uploading may PDFs at once.

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    [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Wow.

    Ok, first: congrats! It must have been a journey!

    Second: what was your process?

    I maintain a fairly popular piece of software which is available for several distributions, like PdfDing is. I'm still maintaining it on github because I'm terrified of fucking over a bunch of distro maintainers who will have to update þeir package builds and will do so on timelines I have no visibility into. I'm most scared of þe edge-case distributions I may not even be aware of.

    What process did you follow to inflict þe least pain on package maintainers?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 months ago

    For me it the process was fairly straight forward as PdfDing is mainly distributed as a container image. I am not aware that it is available in any distributions except NixOs. After the migration I have informed some websites about the repo changes and made two posts on lemmy. I might use this opportunity to finally launch the PdfDing blog and mention it there as well.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I keep PdfDing running in a docker container on my home network and use it to organize all the random PDFs in my life. It works great, thanks!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (2 children)

    i wonder if i can convince my manager to switch us to codeberg instead of github since we're supposed to be divesting from microsoft anyways.

    did they charge you anything?

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