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At work we recently switched from Wkhtmltopdf to Typst, which is a breath of fresh air. It is very fast and generates PDFs from scratch without needing to invol
by giovannibonetti 1y ago
At work we recently switched from Wkhtmltopdf to Typst, which is a breath of fresh air. It is very fast and generates PDFs from scratch without needing to involve HTML or a browser engine. It is implemented in Rust and distributed as a self-contained binary.
This blog post convinced us that the switch was worth it: https://zerodha.tech/blog/1-5-million-pdfs-in-25-minutes/ https://zerodha.tech/blog/1-5-million-pdfs-in-25-minutes/
- stevage 1y agoOh interesting. I use their "old stack" for a couple of much smaller projects and it works fine, but it does seem a bit ridiculous to be starting up a whole chrome instance just to convert one file format to another.
- karteum 1y agoI also love Typst and use it regularly. But just to note it : there is also https://weasyprint.org https://weasyprint.org that takes HTML as input