Why I Started Building GraphCompose

It started with a very simple and very innocent idea.

I wanted to create my own CV in pure Java.

No big framework.

No fancy designer tool.

No “let’s overengineer everything before I even have one page.”

Just Java and PDFBox.

And at first I thought: okay, how hard can it be?

Famous last words. 😂

Because very quickly I found myself inside the classic PDF generation loop:

write coordinates,

render the PDF,

open it,

look at it,

something is slightly wrong,

change coordinates,

render again,

open again,

repeat until your soul leaves your body.

One block is too low.