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I'm 100% remote since 5 years now. I rolled into it by relocating and having my biggest client OK'ing me working from abroad. This still seems to be the easiest way to convert to b…

For the margins there is a global setting in the API that will set the specified margins on the entire document. You can specify additional margins on top of this by setting a marg…

Interesting idea, I've been planning to build a save as PDF extension around it as a case study. Combining the PDF functionality together with an email function sure is interesting…

Thanks a lot for the feedback. I'm not caching at all since I do not want to store any potential confidential data on my servers. The main reason that it's fast is that there are s…

What URL did you try to generate a PDF from? The PDF APi replies with a 422 when it can not connect to the requested URL. This could have a few reasons, the most common one would b…

Just checked your landing page, great job at making the advantages of your service crystal clear. And of course congrats on launching, always scary to show your baby to the world.

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 c…

Thanks for leaving a comment, really appreciate it. The idea of creating a comparison between PDFs rendered with different solutions is genius. Definitely gonna add this. Puppeteer…

Thanks a lot for the constructive feedback. Noting them in down my priority list. You're right, the most common use case would be that a client sends HTML instead of an URL to the …

Thanks for your feedback. You are right that generating PDFs from HTML and Web Technologies is nothing new. Most existing PHP and node libs sadly don't provide great rendering once…

Thank you. Pricing is still experimental, I'm hoping that the easy API interface and the lack of maintenance that my clients would need to do provide a lot more value than the mont…

Thanks for the kind words!

A little addendum, I'm also contemplating to create a manual service where you could send me a document in any format (JPG, PSD, Microsoft Word) and I'd create a REST endpoint that…

Hello HN! It kept surprising me how much of a hassle it is to generate a PDF with decent HTML5 rendering from my SaaS apps. I tried several free libs and APIs but ended up with bot…