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Typst killed the invoice industry
by vatsachak 4mo ago
Typst killed the invoice industry
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- boromi 4mo agoHow so?
- CodesInChaos 4mo agoTypst and its json based templating makes it easy to create good looking invoice PDFs for free. The open-source solutions we tried before were annoying (Used LaTeX, wkhtmltopdf, weasyprint in production and evaluated several more). To avoid that pain we asked some commercial PDF generator software for a quote, but their per document pricing was insane.
- Ametrin 4mo agoTypst is a really good fit if the layout model works for your invoices and you want to keep it self-hosted. I’m building PDFBolt as a hosted api, and pricing was one of the first things I wanted to keep simple. For invoices and other recurring pdfs, I think teams mostly want to know what the monthly cost will be, not do math on every render
- vatsachak 4mo agoBecause it turns pdf generation into a programming language, hence you can automatically generate invoices with little hassle.
- __mharrison__ 4mo agoI do all my invoicing and SOW proposals with Typst. As well as slideshows and books...