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andrsschultz cuts the CDN cord

A small but telling change: this fork stops phoning home to third-party servers every time a PDF loads.

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Out of the box, the upstream codebase pulls PDF rendering fonts from a public CDN and web fonts from Google every time a user opens a document. That's a quiet dependency most teams never think about - until the CDN has a bad day, or a compliance reviewer asks why client documents are triggering calls to servers nobody vetted.

andrsschultz has pulled the PDF font set in-house so it ships with the app, and stripped the Google Fonts call entirely in favour of a system font fallback. The product now renders documents without needing the open internet at all. It's the kind of housekeeping that doesn't show up in a demo but matters the first time someone in legal asks where the data goes.

So what Worth a look for anyone deploying legal-AI tools into environments where outbound traffic to third-party CDNs is a procurement or compliance headache.

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bef0c6f9 Localize frontend external assets asschultz 2026-04-30 ↗ GitHub

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