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Here is a great practical intro to generators: Generator Tricks for Systems Programmers - http://www.dabeaz.com/generators-uk/GeneratorsUK.pdf

My own startup: Pdfcrowd http://pdfcrowd.com It lets you convert HTML to PDF online - either directly in your browser or in your apps using the API.

http://www.swig.org/ automatically binds existing C++ software to other programming languages. I use it a lot to call C++ from Python and Java and I must say it is really amazing p…

A shameless plug for my project, but hopefully you might find it useful. I run http://pdfcrowd.com which is an online service providing html to pdf API. It lets you convert a web p…

Try sites with smaller audiences to get at least some coverage. If your app is good big blogs might notice and write about it. My personal experience: I submitted my app to MoMB - …

There is no doubt that many developers will use wkhtmltopdf. I think that the Pdfcrowd's selling points could be 1) wide availability - only HTTP is needed so it can be used theore…

I did not know about this project at the time I started with pdfcrowd. But anyway, I just took my existing pdf library and integrated it with WebKit which was not that hard as one …

That's a known problem on my todo list. The colors are dulled only in Acrobat but other PDF readers render the colors correctly. Please, could you post the link to that page if pos…

I don't know the exact status of how WebKit handles these properties. I know that at least "page-break-after: always" works since that is what I use when the user clicks the 'Inser…

Yes, I have seen it but have not tried it yet.

Thanks for the report. I will look into it as there should be no default HTML in the editor.

My current plan is to charge for conversion tokens but I'm not decided how much yet.

No special reason - I just don't know PHP. But it is on the todo list.

Sorry, don't know why. Your site does not validate but it could be problem on my side as well.

That's a non-trivial task. There are no such objects like tables, styles, lists or paragraphs in PDF so you would need to reconstruct this kind of information. Also, text and vecto…

Dear HNers, This March I launched my new project. It is an online service providing HTML to PDF API. It can convert either URLs or uploaded HTML files. For convenience, API binding…

1) Since November 2009, launched this March. 2) Never applied. 3) No, self-funded. 4) http://pdfcrowd.com - html to pdf online API

Have a look at http://pdfcrowd.com - it is a service providing an html to pdf online API and it has bindings for python. It is in private beta now, so if you are interested please …