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0 pointsgiovannibonetti1y ago0 comments

At work we recently switched from Wkhtmltopdf to Typst, which is a breath of fresh air. It is very fast and generates PDFs from scratch without needing to involve HTML or a browser engine. It is implemented in Rust and distributed as a self-contained binary.

This blog post convinced us that the switch was worth it: https://zerodha.tech/blog/1-5-million-pdfs-in-25-minutes/

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stevage1y ago

Oh interesting. I use their "old stack" for a couple of much smaller projects and it works fine, but it does seem a bit ridiculous to be starting up a whole chrome instance just to convert one file format to another.

karteum1y ago

I also love Typst and use it regularly. But just to note it : there is also https://weasyprint.org that takes HTML as input

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