[mx_02]

> "Well, how hard can that be?”

Very hard?

I worked on a tool that generated PDFs based on API responses. The tool added charts from the api data.

Those PDFs were reports with some hardcoded text.

Yesh what a fun ride that was.

[kccqzy]

Generating PDFs are incredibly easy. I just generate LaTeX and run it through lualatex. When precise positioning is needed, I just use a giant tikzpicture.