Stet – PostScript Level 3 interpreter and PDF toolkit in Rust

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Stet is a PostScript Level 3 interpreter, a PDF reader, and a print-quality PDF writer, all in pure Rust. All three converge on a single DisplayList type, so any output device (PNG, desktop viewer, PDF, WASM) works with any source — you can render a PS file to PDF or PNG, a PDF to PNG, or to a display list for a custom backend all through the same pipeline.The link above is the WASM build running entirely client-side — drop a PS, EPS, or PDF and it renders. It's a capability sampler, not a production viewer: no system fonts (browser sandbox), fixed zoom stops, single-threaded at ~2× native overhead.Why build it: GhostScript is AGPL, pdfium is enormous, and there wasn't a pure-Rust stack that

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Website: andycappdev.github.io/stet