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Show HN: I built a zero-browser, pure-JS typesetting engine for bit-perfect PDFs

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A film director developed VMPrint, a zero-browser, pure-JS typesetting engine for generating bit-perfect PDFs from Markdown, addressing issues with multilingual text shaping and complex pagination in screenplay formats. This tool offers content creators, especially those working in mixed languages and requiring precise formatting like screenplays, an efficient alternative to traditional clunky software by automating the process of converting plain text into industry-standard documents.

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