Show HN: ThePDFApi, a Chrome Based PDF Generation API Hosted on AWS

Re:Show HN: ThePDFApi, a Chrome Based PDF Generation API Hos... by schappim on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @04:27PM (#17182667)

I literally just built this for rendering invoices etc yesterday.

I ended up using wktohtml on AWS Lambda. Wktohtml isn’t nearly as nice as Princexml or headless Chrome, but for the most part it gets the job done.

What did you end up using for your stack?

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Re:Show HN: ThePDFApi, a Chrome Based PDF Generation API Hos... by marcTPA on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @04:38PM (#17182743)

That's a coincidence :) I used wkhtmltopdf in the past as well but it struggled when dealing with more complex layouts.

My stack is a tweaked Chrome headless on Linux in a docker container, exposed by a Node API.

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