rajh

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   by rajh 1y ago

   In the Netherlands we have the KNMI data platform ( https://dataplatform.knmi.nl ) and also an open source weather app ( https://gitlab.com/KNMI-OSS/KNMI-App ).
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   by rajh 3y ago

   We are also using DocRaptor. It takes around 20 seconds to generate the PDF, and we only need to generate it every night. So the costs are also not an issue at the moment.
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   by rajh 3y ago

   Yes, I’ve tried all the open source projects I could find. Including Weasyprint and wkhtmltopdf. Weasyprint was much slower than headless Chrome and also required a lot of memory to process the HTML. And wkhtmltopdf is no longer maintained
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   by rajh 3y ago

   I needed to transform a 12MB HTML file into a PDF document and headless Chrome quickly ran out of memory (4GB+). We are now using a commercial alternative that seems be be using a custom engine that implements the HTML and CSS specs. The re
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   by rajh 4y ago

   I’m not sure what the benefits are in comparison with using Ansible with all the available modules and collections. Because it seems most functionality is also available in https://galaxy.ansible.com/community/docker .