Re:Ask HN: please review my app - html to pdf API
by thepsi on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @05:06PM
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Nice execution - as per the comment below, something like this would've saved me lots of manual fiddling back when I was doing lots of PDF stuff.
Given the focus on APIs I guess you're aiming it at those wanting to programmatically generate PDFs using a familiar markup, rather than conversion of existing (static) content into PDF? If so, maybe investigate the ability to overlay rendering onto an existing PDF template at some point - in my experience it's been a common requirement (think form letters, account statements, etc).
Interesting that it appears to execute Javascript; guess it's a sign of the times that you need to in order to render many sites correctly nowadays. I haven't poked it too hard, but suspect there might be one or two security challenges there...
Given the focus on APIs I guess you're aiming it at those wanting to programmatically generate PDFs using a familiar markup, rather than conversion of existing (static) content into PDF? If so, maybe investigate the ability to overlay rendering onto an existing PDF template at some point - in my experience it's been a common requirement (think form letters, account statements, etc).
Interesting that it appears to execute Javascript; guess it's a sign of the times that you need to in order to render many sites correctly nowadays. I haven't poked it too hard, but suspect there might be one or two security challenges there...