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Ask HN: HTML to PDF API

1 points by akhilrex 14y ago

Hi HN, I plan to develop an online tool which shall provide REST API access for converting HTML to PDF. I have been using the same for an internal project and have been extremely happy with the results. I need your thoughts on the feature set you want to be included. What features as a developer do you think will make this API easy and useful for developers. Thanks for reading and do let me know your thoughts on the. I do not mind any honest criticism of the idea :) Thanks

lutusp 14y ago
Are you aware that such things already exist, and are pretty advanced? http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ I offer this only so you will know you may be reinventing the wheel, not to discourage you -- your project might be better.
- naveensky 14y ago
  REST API may be useful with shared hosting or better from JS itself.
  - lutusp 14y ago
    If it was written entirely in JavaScript -- yes, that would be pretty cool, and very useful to have something like that hosted online.
iurisilvio 14y ago
I use pdfcrowd.com to do that. It is an awesome service.