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Re:Ask HN: Is PDF generation a real pain for developers? on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @01:50AM (#5630603)
Our service has built in charts support. Check out Pagify and let me if it is something you will use?
Re:Ask HN: Is PDF generation a real pain for developers? on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @01:46AM (#5630596)
Sorry I must have misunderstood. That is what HTML2PDF engines do. We generate PDFs using our own templates.
Re:Ask HN: Is PDF generation a real pain for developers? on Monday April 29, 2013 @12:20PM (#5627095)
Thanks we will start looking for its uses as a stand alone product.
Re:Ask HN: Is PDF generation a real pain for developers? on Monday April 29, 2013 @11:33AM (#5626812)
Thanks. Do you think by using an HTML template that can be filled in later is a better idea than visual designer?
Re:Ask HN: Is PDF generation a real pain for developers? on Monday April 29, 2013 @11:30AM (#5626797)
Thanks for the feedback. We are going after the SF market, but there is already competition. As far as pricing model is concerned we would do that on the no of pages one generates. Do you think developers are not the right market? Can we offer it to developers in some form?
Re:Ask HN: Is PDF generation a real pain for developers? on Monday April 29, 2013 @11:26AM (#5626760)
It does print the web page. But when it comes to print-friendly reports and quotes you need some library or print ready web page. So we allow developers to create a template that is print ready. And then using an API call they can merge data and generate PDF.
Re:Ask HN: Is PDF generation a real pain for developers? on Monday April 29, 2013 @11:24AM (#5626748)
We are looking into dynamic layout where tables can be split. It would be great to work along side you. Can I have your contact?
Re:Ask HN: Is PDF generation a real pain for developers? on Monday April 29, 2013 @11:21AM (#5626718)
Yes it will. Can we talk more about it?
Re:Ask HN: Is PDF generation a real pain for developers? on Sunday April 28, 2013 @11:19AM (#5621502)
Help us understand PDF generation and its problems.

Ask HN: Is PDF generation a real pain for developers?

Recently we launched a PDF generation service on cloud by the name of Pagify http://pagify.io for developers. Our main assumptions were:1) It is tedious to code the layout and design of the PDF using code libraries such as FPDF, Prawn etc.2) When it came to generating large no of PDFs it is difficult to scale.3) Developer wants to focus on the core offering of their web product rather that...

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Re:Secure Your REST API on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @03:49PM (#5566668)
We tried this with Pagify http://pagify.io And I think supporting client libraries was not an issue, since we had to provide SDK one way or the other.
Re:Secure Your REST API on Wednesday April 17, 2013 @03:25PM (#5566514)
What are your thoughts on Amazon like security scheme? As far as there are no third party apps involved, I think OAuth is an overkill.

What I mean by Amazon like securtiy is described in this article http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/designing-a-secure-rest-api-with...

Re:Quantity vs Quality on Thursday March 21, 2013 @07:32AM (#5414331)
I would say its practice than quantity that gets you to perfection. Producing quantity without learning through that process won't get you to that quality or perfection.
Re:Annotated source is not documentation on Thursday March 21, 2013 @07:27AM (#5414308)
Tutorials are good for beginners, but with experience a developer should be able to follow the annotated (auto- generated) documentation.

I use ruby, and for many gems there are no real tutorials, except for a short introduction on their usage. And I think even then it is pretty easy to follow the annotated-docs.

Re: MyEsalon Needs Feedback on Design, UI,UX on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @08:33AM (#5406805)
The website looks really old style and average.

The menu containing Web marketing, Web designing and so on, needs to modified. Probably a smaller and better font would do the job.

And most importantly the icons for design and development, web management and everything do not follow any theme. They all seem to portray a different theme for the icons. Probably changing them would be a good a option.

Lastly the about section also needs a lighter font color and different font size.

Re:Newman API - Form2Mail for Static Websites on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @08:18AM (#5406746)
I think using Google forms is a much better way to do it. No signups, no pricing, and most importantly if my website is static why would I want to add forms to it.

One more thing the process is far too complex for a person with just a static website.

Finally something that developers using Windows want. Command-line is good, but when it comes to Windows I think people expect to have some GUI in place for all tools. Great work!
Re:Ask HN: Why don't "geeks" use Geeklist? on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @10:18AM (#5361925)
I think geeks are more inclined towards a simple interface, more like what hacker news and free node provide. But geeklist is more like facebook with with all those useless stuff like gamification, high fives etc.

In my opinion even a platform with only REST API would be more tempting for geeks rather than geeklist.

Re:Context Menus With jQuery on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @04:30AM (#5291469)
Context menu is an old topic now. There is no point writing about it again and again.
Re:Is Chase bank good for startup on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @04:21AM (#5291444)
I wanted to know this too. I recently contacted Wells Fargo, and they said it would be 12$ per month for a basic business account. Please do suggest what options are there for non-us residents to open up a bank account with minimum charges possible.
Re:Ask HN: Is it worth to learn Java? on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @04:16AM (#5291432)
I think having strong programming foundations is very important. And learning any one language C++ or JAVA is enough to do it. Once you have strong foundations, then you should learn languages that you want to use to develop something. Otherwise I think learning for the sake of learning is useless.
Re:Ask HN: Any great programming books in text file format? on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @02:03AM (#5291076)
I think there are lot of PDF to TXT online converters. You can simply convert the files and send it to them.
Re:Show HN: FuncyTag JS/PY HTML generator on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @01:59AM (#5291064)
Can you please elaborate on its use cases? Personally I think jquery gives a great way to generate dynamic HTML.
Re:Developer's Guide to Images on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @01:55AM (#5291060)
I was developing a web-to-print web app, and I think I can get some pointers from this article. A good guide indeed!