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by DonnyV 3228 days ago
Just use WkhtmlToPdf https://wkhtmltopdf.org and wrap a simple service around it.
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bshimmin 3228 days ago
That's one hell of a "just".
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DonnyV 3219 days ago
I did it in 2 days. Its not very hard.
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moocowtruck 3228 days ago
DonnyV don't you know we need 15 million of the same things in technology :)
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joshribakoff 3228 days ago
Wkhtmltopdf has basically not been updated in years aside from minor bug fixes. It has major issues the author has no plans to fix. I've spend 100s of hours applying workarounds to legacy codebases. All that code could be refactored now. Phantomjs and wkhtmltopdf don't even support doing $(.htmlE).width() from JavaScript. This can complicate laying out the page needless to say. https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/issues/2419
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DonnyV 3219 days ago
Why are you doing layout code in javascript? If it can't be done using CSS then your doing something wrong. This is being used to generate PDFs of exact width and height size documents. Hard code the width and height of your page.
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kyriakos 3226 days ago
wkhtmltopdf is a solid tool but its mostly abandoned now. rendering in chrome headless is way faster and more accurate. chrome headless though is lacking a lot of features that wkhtmltopdf provides like headers/footers
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DonnyV 3219 days ago
Headers/footers are 2 huge features. Plus all of the other small features wkhtmltopdf has. It may not have all the new bells and whistles but it works reliably.
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