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by mstijak 705 days ago
Never heard that someone is generating PDF documents at that pace. I'm working on a product that is used for mass PDF reporting based on Puppeteer. With nightly jobs, caching, and parallel processing, the performance is ok.

https://www.cx-reports.com
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tecleandor 705 days ago
I think we don't reach that much quantity, but we do a hefty number. What for? Invoices!

We're having problems because until now PDFs are being generated by the ERP system, and it can't keep pace. I know there's a Dev team working on a microservice for PDF generation, but never thinked about doing it with Typst.

I think I'm going to send them @mr-karan link.

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1oooqooq 705 days ago
pdf/ps can easily be created in a way that data for text and qr code fields are easily in plain text. seems like yall focusing too much on the higher level tools instead of what's right in front of you.
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mstijak 705 days ago
Company branding is an important aspect of PDF creation that many tools struggle to handle correctly. PDF documents often need to include logos, company colors, fonts, and other branding elements. Puppeteer is popular because you can control these aspects through CSS. However, Puppeteer can be challenging to work with for larger documents, as each change requires programming effort or when your software needs to needs to serve multiple clients each with different requirements.
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tecleandor 705 days ago
Yep, it's mostly about branding and control. It needs certain concrete layout and logos, and has to be relatively easy to change them.

We also render shipping labels in PDF, and we have to be VERY strict with that. But we're still not touching that, as that process is not at slow and problematic as the invoicing one.

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1oooqooq 705 days ago
how having the value and name in an invoice as plain text affect branding? or do you mean there client branding is added to the invoice??

the end result when you open the file is still a regular pdf. it's just encoded with some areas unpacked

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tecleandor 704 days ago
It's not about the plaintext, but about the layout, design and logos. At least in our case.
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1oooqooq 704 days ago
so why you bring that up on a thread that had nothing to with layout? I'm honestly confused
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