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"Why generating PDF from HTML did not make me happy" (english, ~40min)

Generating pdfs with rather complex layouts is a key feature of our product, so this talk is about my personal experience with:

  • limitations and reliability of pdf libs and developer happyness
  • how generating pdfs evolved over time at foxtag and the status quo
  • the pdf "ecosystem" in general

... and of course I'd like to learn about other solutions that I don't know

Since Study.eu mentioned Puppeteer and rails_pdf when asking for pdf creation approaches, I'll try to take a quick look at them and give a short first impression how useful they may be for

ActionView::Component

Writing and maintaining server-side rendered views in Rails was tedious and error-prone, especially in large apps. A new library developed by GitHub is supposed to improve that experience. Let's have a look what it does and how it works.

Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer (20)

Organizer

Irina Lindt
Treffen: 27
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Niels Linnemann
Treffen: 5
Themen: 1

Gerrit Sommer
Treffen: 2
Themen: 0

Bente Pieck
Treffen: 20
Themen: 2

Karsten Senz
Treffen: 47
Themen: 0

Luka Dornhecker
Treffen: 16
Themen: 0

Peter Schröder
Treffen: 82
Themen: 12

Manuel Boy
Treffen: 1
Themen: 1

Sönke Behrendt
Treffen: 1
Themen: 0

Stefan Greffenius
Treffen: 1
Themen: 0

Helmut Schmidt
Treffen: 9
Themen: 0

Johannes Thönes
Treffen: 2
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Johannes Strampe
Treffen: 18
Themen: 3

Nora Briesemeister
Treffen: 1
Themen: 0

Aleks
Treffen: 1
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Waldemar
Treffen: 68
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Sarah Langheinrich
Treffen: 23
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Daniel Gruenthal
Treffen: 31
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Jim Lesperance
Treffen: 7
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Lorenz Kitzmann
Treffen: 9
Themen: 0

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