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What else would you use to generate PDFs from a text-based template?
by xigoi 1y ago
What else would you use to generate PDFs from a text-based template?
- jayknight 1y ago20-ish years ago I wrote a system to do that with xslt. Would not recommend.
- sixtyj 1y agoE.g. Pandoc, universal tool…
- xigoi 1y agoDoesn’t Pandoc just use LaTeX under the hood?
- dfc 1y agoYou will be surprised to learn that pandoc uses latex for generating the PDF. It's barely hidden: https://www.pandoc.org/demo/example33/2.4-creating-a-pdf.html https://www.pandoc.org/demo/example33/2.4-creating-a-pdf.htm...
- __mharrison__ 1y agoPandoc works with typst too.
- smartmic 1y agoDITA, see my other comment on level up.
- spider-mario 1y agoReportLab?
- chromanoid 1y agoA good XSL-FO impl with docbook or something like that?
- henrebotha 1y agoAsciidoctor?
- Iwan-Zotow 1y agoDocbook
- pepa65 1y agoApart from typst, I've used weasyprint.