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by starptech
2941 days ago
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Generating PDF's from HTML and Web Technologies is nothing new. There are tons of PHP and Node.js libs e.g I could host a service in minutes with the help of https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer in only few lines of code. Hosting that service on digital-ocean would reduce the cost to ~5/month. Cheers! |
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You are right that generating PDFs from HTML and Web Technologies is nothing new. Most existing PHP and node libs sadly don't provide great rendering once you have a document that consists of modern CSS and HTML or modern image formats such as SVG.
Puppeteer would indeed provide the same rendering quality but then you're responsible for the maintenance of the running instances. I'm hoping to make my user's life easier by taking this task out of their hands.