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> "Well, how hard can that be?” Very hard? I worked on a tool that generated PDFs based on API responses. The tool added charts from the api data. Those PDFs
by mx_02 3y ago
> "Well, how hard can that be?”
Very hard?
I worked on a tool that generated PDFs based on API responses. The tool added charts from the api data.
Those PDFs were reports with some hardcoded text.
Yesh what a fun ride that was.
- kccqzy 3y agoGenerating PDFs are incredibly easy. I just generate LaTeX and run it through lualatex. When precise positioning is needed, I just use a giant tikzpicture.