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-pitfall ![Build Status](https://github.com/mbutterick/pitfall/workflows/CI/badge.svg)
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+## pitfall ![Build Status](https://github.com/mbutterick/pitfall/workflows/CI/badge.svg)
+
 Racket library for generating PDFs. Based on [PDFKit](https://github.com/devongovett/pdfkit).
 
 
-License
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+## License
 
 MIT
 
 Fonts in `ptest` folder are under separate licenses included there.
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+## Project status
+
+Actively developed, though it’s not clear what more needs to be done. Most of the functionality from PDFKit has been ported over. This project is built to support [Quad](https://github.com/mbutterick/quad). I have no plans to release it as a standalone library or write documentation. In truth, I don’t know how a lot of this code works.