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Re:BreezyPDF Lite: HTML to PDF generation as a Service by wilsonfiifi on Friday June 29, 2018 @12:10PM (#17425321)
Can you elaborate a bit more on your Word based reporting? To date the only solution i've been satisfied with is Aspose Words. Unfortunately licensing is a bit steep so it would be good to know if any cheaper options are available.
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Re:BreezyPDF Lite: HTML to PDF generation as a Service by cygned on Friday June 29, 2018 @12:49PM (#17425712)
We basically process the template with a node.js library. We then have a node.js server on a Windows machine that takes a file, saves it onto disk and runs a Visual Basic application on it which itself starts Microsoft Word headless to save the file as PDF.
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Re:BreezyPDF Lite: HTML to PDF generation as a Service by benbristow on Friday June 29, 2018 @02:20PM (#17426455)
> runs a Visual Basic application on it

Clever, but that does sound a bit messy.

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Re:BreezyPDF Lite: HTML to PDF generation as a Service by cygned on Friday June 29, 2018 @03:09PM (#17426902)
Sounds messy. However, this VB app is literally just 15 LOC, pretty straightforward. And it is the only solution we have found so far that allows us to leverage Word.
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