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Converting X to PDF is far from simple ( I wish it was! ).
by eterm 8y ago
Converting X to PDF is far from simple ( I wish it was! ).
- gremlinsinc 8y agoIt's actually not always hard (depending on use case and what 'x' is) if you use an existing api or something that has already been developed...why re-invent the wheel? wkhtmltopdf is pretty easy to use... there's some other tools...
- schoen 8y agoI think eterm's point is not that there aren't readily-available tools to do it, but that it's hard to do in full generality without loss of information.
- gremlinsinc 8y agomy point was if you just wanted a simple 'online tool' to slap some ads on, or have a fancier upgrade, it's probably doable without a ton of effort..obviously some integrations will be harder than others...
- maxxxxx 8y agoFrom my experience almost nothing around PDF is simple once you scratch the surface...
- config_yml 8y agosimplepdf did a great job, good example of doing something simple that’s actually not that simple
- HeyLaughingBoy 8y agoPDFSharp FTW!
- sudhirj 8y agoSimple != Easy. Think the question isn't what's easy money - you can have really simple ideas or products that just do one thing, but they're not necessarily easy to do.