Show HN: Pdf-Bot, an API/CLI for Generating PDFs Using Headless Chrome
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Re: Show HN: Pdf-Bot, an API/CLI for Generating PDFs Using Headless Chrome
#2Headless chrome is awesome. I'm using it to generate multiple PNG from SVG.
Re: Show HN: Pdf-Bot, an API/CLI for Generating PDFs Using Headless Chrome
#3All I need now is CMYK support in Chrome and I can make HTML based print ready PDF rendering. That would be quite upgrade compared to my current options.
Re: Show HN: Pdf-Bot, an API/CLI for Generating PDFs Using Headless Chrome
#4Headless chrome is awesome. I'm using it to generate multiple PNG from SVG.
I agree with you but as a 'old' developer, I find it pretty sad that you have to fire up a headless browser + its gigaton of code, to convert a SVG to PNG. But I agree with you, headless chrome can be very useful.
Re: Show HN: Pdf-Bot, an API/CLI for Generating PDFs Using Headless Chrome
#5Headless chrome is awesome. I'm using it to generate multiple PNG from SVG.
Indeed, I see lately many cool projects emerging.
Is a pity that not all projects are using the same GitHub tag #headless-chromium [1]
This other project[2] was recently on HN but you can't find it easily on github search.
[1] https://github.com/search?q=topic%3Aheadless-chromium&type=R...
Re: Show HN: Pdf-Bot, an API/CLI for Generating PDFs Using Headless Chrome
#6Pretty cool! Check out Google's headless browser API Puppeteer too, they provide a few really useful functions for doing stuff like this.
https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/blob/master/exampl...
Really easy to work around, I used it to build a simple CLI to generate device screenshots of a webpage by modifying the user-agent and resolution to match each device.
Re: Show HN: Pdf-Bot, an API/CLI for Generating PDFs Using Headless Chrome
#7Headless chrome is awesome. I'm using it to generate multiple PNG from SVG.
I agree with you but as a 'old' developer, I find it pretty sad that you have to fire up a headless browser + its gigaton of code, to convert a SVG to PNG. But I agree with you, headless chrome can be very useful.
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Re: Show HN: Pdf-Bot, an API/CLI for Generating PDFs Using Headless Chrome
#8idea: using this as "send to kindle" generating pdfs from urls you stumble upon, and seamlessly sending them to the *@kindle.com email address to consume in the device
I don't know if there's an easier way or service these days
Re: Show HN: Pdf-Bot, an API/CLI for Generating PDFs Using Headless Chrome
#9Headless chrome is awesome. I'm using it to generate multiple PNG from SVG.
I agree with you but as a 'old' developer, I find it pretty sad that you have to fire up a headless browser + its gigaton of code, to convert a SVG to PNG. But I agree with you, headless chrome can be very useful.
You could also do that with inkscape on the commandline, not sure if it's faster, though...
Re: Show HN: Pdf-Bot, an API/CLI for Generating PDFs Using Headless Chrome
#10idea: using this as "send to kindle" generating pdfs from urls you stumble upon, and seamlessly sending them to the *@kindle.com email address to consume in the device I don't know if there's an easier way or service these days
Instapaper did that pretty well, and I think Pocket Premium does that too - in MOBI format, which is much easier to read on the Kindle than PDF.
These days I use Calibre instead because the overall experience is better, but for single articles it's a bit overkill.