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Re: URL to PDF Microservice

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Post by j_s »

gmisra wrote: post #46

Partially off topic: does anybody know of a hosted solution that turns a pdf into an html page, and hosts the output html (optionally, also hosts the pdf, with a downloadable link).

Maybe this is too obvious (I assume you've already rejected it as an option), but depending on how desperate/minimum-viable-product you are: Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. offer PDF preview functionality.

Re: URL to PDF Microservice

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Post by welder »

welder wrote: post #80
homero wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've moved all my pdf to client side. Less security and processing on the server. http://pdfmake.org/#/gettingstarted

Then you can't send pdfs in emails or pre-cache pdfs...

On second thought, if you're ok with linking to PDFs instead of attaching them in emails then you can pre-cache all content needed to generate PDFs. Besides email attachments, I can't think of a use-case for server side generating PDFs.

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Post by mrskitch »

tonetheman wrote: post #69
mrskitch wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, I'd love to talk to you more about your issues with getting over to puppeteer. I'm working on a product that separates application infrastructure from Chrome as it's nightmare to try and scale with. I've written somewhat extensively about the deployment approaches here: https://hackernoon.com/more-than-you-want-to-know-about-head...

That was a great read!

Hey, thanks for the kind words, really appreciate hearing that!

Re: URL to PDF Microservice

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Post by jgamman »

jgamman wrote: post #70

OT (maybe) Question: I've gotten more and more annoyed over the years as links are deleted/decay etc. Even more so recently. Is there a plug-in that makes a 'personal archive' or potentially on-sends the page to the Archive. It would be useful to be able to search/go back in my time-line to webpages even if they were just static pdf's.

thx for the suggestions - not quite what i was looking for. it's not so much bookmarking for later reading as a background process that dumps an archive file onto my hard drive. i'm especially not interested in someone else's side project since the risk is that they'll fold in x years. my usr scenario is being able to re-read a web page i know i saw even if i forgot to bookmark it ie, just about anything to do with climate change on a US govt site. a kind of distributed collection of 'truthy-ish' references (a large number of people have the same hash of the original page on their personal archive -> truthy-ish).
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