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by eschutte2 3518 days ago
Cool. For even more privacy, you could generate the PDF client-side.
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uniclaude 3518 days ago
True!

Plus this would allow the author to host this service on an cheap and robust s3+cloudfront setup!

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thenaturalist 3518 days ago
Asking as a self-taught not-so-advanced-yet guy wanting to build a similar I/O web app: Could you elaborate a bit on how client-side transformation/ generation could be achieved?
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mypalmike 3518 days ago
Perhaps using http://pdfkit.org/
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escap 3518 days ago
or using https://github.com/bpampuch/pdfmake e.g. http://pdfmake.org/playground.html "pdfmake is based on a truly amazing library pdfkit.org"
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kranner 3518 days ago
There's also https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF
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