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Show HN: Papermill – a document generation engine for AI workflows(papermill.io)
3 points by davidpapermill 4mo ago|0 comments
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by davidpapermill 4mo ago
Author here - this is something I've been thinking about while using Claude.ai and Claude Code. I'm often using them to prepare large documents and the UX isn't there. Thought this analogy works quite well to pin down the fee
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Chat is a solvent(papermill.io)
1 points by davidpapermill 4mo ago|1 comments
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by davidpapermill 4mo ago
I do agree that free fonts are overused and a really great font can work wonders. We're a little limited by licence restrictions at Papermill, so it may depend on your use case. Love the comment on the book - I've spent too long l
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Print Design Tips for Engineers(papermill.io)
5 points by davidpapermill 4mo ago|2 comments
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by davidpapermill 4mo ago
Footnotes are very hard to typeset. They’re up there with tables as the biggest headache for any typesetter.
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by davidpapermill 4mo ago
Thanks Jonny. What were you rendering?
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by davidpapermill 4mo ago
Great! I’ll be posting videos on social media of MCP use over the next few weeks. Be sure to follow @papermillapp and keep an eye on our blog.
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by davidpapermill 4mo ago
Worth adding that we also support the integration of many PDFs into a large document, including complex processing, but this is not part of the publicly accessible Press language (yet).
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by davidpapermill 4mo ago
Papermill is more the "infrastructure" layer that sits below legal AI tools - we don't work directly with law firms, rather more likely to be used by a startup building a legal tool. Companies like Wordsmith, Legatics, Legora
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by davidpapermill 4mo ago
Thanks Tom, good to see you on HN! You can connect Papermill to your favourite agent via MCP - we prefer Claude Code. https://docs.papermill.io/mcp/#using-the-papermill-mcp-serve... You can ask Claude to generate templ
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by davidpapermill 4mo ago
Press is designed from the ground-up for agentic workflows. We spoke to hundreds of companies generating PDFs before we designed the language, and had been building AI design systems ourselves for a few years. You can connect an agent to ou
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by davidpapermill 4mo ago
Thanks Tim! Great to see Byteful doing so well too!
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by davidpapermill 4mo ago
Hi Folks - I'm David, CEO of Papermill. We're super excited to get feedback on what we're building. This is the first time we've posted to a forum. Designing a document language for AI is a major undertaking and we'
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Show HN: Papermill Press – An AI-friendly markup language for PDF generation
18 points by davidpapermill 4mo ago|22 comments
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by davidpapermill 1y ago
This is interesting. So it's HTML -> PDF without using Chrome/Puppeteer etc.? Is that correct. It reminds me of https://weasyprint.org/ Weasyprint (by their own admission) have really struggled with a lot of bu
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by davidpapermill 1y ago
What did you use for PDF Report Generation?
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by davidpapermill 1y ago
This link works: https://imgur.com/a/YtFSodj I think the GitHub link was supposed to be: https://github.com/WellApp-ai/Well/tree/main/ai-receipt-gene... I'm interested in this
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by davidpapermill 1y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Yep - we've yet to update the website. It's a waitlist, we're not launched yet. Absolutely fair criticism. It'll be updated in the next few weeks!
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by davidpapermill 1y ago
"Very little" in terms of the text formatting I guess. But there's no reason they can't improve on that.
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by davidpapermill 1y ago
InDesign is awesome. Anyone designing a general purpose document language should spend a lot of time in InDesign first. LaTeX should not be your mental model.
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by davidpapermill 1y ago
Agreed, it's about _imperative_ vs _declarative_ languages. The problem with languages like LaTeX etc. is they treat a document as a linear sequence of instructions: "write this text", "switch to justify right" etc.