Introducing PDFGen - Dynamic PDF Generation for your App

Try it out at pdfgen.app
In almost every app I work on, I need to generate PDFs.
I always do the same thing: spin up a server the runs puppeteer, get pug installed, created template, and more.
I started to get tired of doing the same thing in every project so I decided to create a service that allows me to easily create templates, send data to an endpoint, and get a PDF back.
I would love you could give it a try and let me know what you think! 🙏

[@TheInfamousAlpha]

Nice service! I ran into the same issue when working with Heroku - the dependencies for Puppeteer where too large to get it working. I eventually opted for a client-side generated Pdf instead. I just send the data to the FE and 🎆🚀

[@holodeck_run]

Nice! Yeah I've had issues with Heroku and the size of the slug as well. Not found!

[@nicolaimartin7279]

thank you Ryan for share

[@danielangelov5701]

Hi! Great service! Working perfectly! One question though: if this is to be used in a web app that needs to generate pdf with a user 's personal details (i.e. name, email, phone, etc) can then your service be considered GDPR friendly? I mean does it store any of the data passed in the request body or simply returns the pdf without storing and managing any of the data?

[@holodeck_run]

Thanks! We don't store any of the data passed to the API to generate a PDF. Only the test data that you use when setting up your template is stored. I can't say that the app is officially GDPR compliant as there's more that needs to be done to make such statements. But indeed we do not store any payloads passed to the API for PDF generation :)

[@luig1987]

Amazing product! Is there a way to add fonts to the pdf? Thanks in advance for the response!

[@vognercee]

Hello Ryan, It is a nice product. I wrote a Python routine that created a PDF invoice that looked precisely like the customer's manual invoice. The layout was very busy but that was a requirement. If your product had been available I would have liked to give it a go! -- Lannie

[@holodeck_run]

good to hear Lannie, thanks!

[@dayyanali8005]

Cool !

[@dumitruradu9948]

hey, it will be really nice if you add a documentation for this. Thanks

[@oranmizrahi4647]

Can't open the pdf after curl, I get error "Failed to load PDF document." Trying to open in windows 10 with brave/edge browsers and adobe acrobat

[@ibrahimabdallah328]

Great product. Does it support RTL with tailwind ?, and how about multi- page PDF generation ?

[@holodeck_run]

Indeed you should be able to do RTL with tailwind :) multi page is possible too, at least if you need to break into multiple pages to handle content that is beyond a single page. it breaks cleanly into a new page.

[@kamranqadri]

How about bulk generation, like I like to generate 500 invoices monthly and store in s3 so client can get access rapidly, does it support that load? How long it will take to generate and how about pdf with multiple pages like 500

[@RepublicOfNoCode]

WHat is the pricing of this ? Website doesn't contain any information

[@ralffig3297]

Hello - will this be a commercial product?

[@holodeck_run]

Possibly! if you have a specific need, feel free to message me :)

[@DeepSinghYoutube007]

can you provide the source code for the node application also

[@coldnakedman]

hey, how can i change background color for "div"? css rule didnt work in the template...

[@holodeck_run]

hey! what's the css rule you applied? it might need to have !important on it

[@coldnakedman]

@@holodeck_run just tried in the styles tab "background-color: #f8f8f8 !important;" and still nothing

[@joakimedwardh9174]

Any docs avaliable?

[@Balance-8]

Why PUG and not just JS?

[@holodeck_run]

pug is great for templating where you deliver to PDF at the end. with JS, it will require working with screenshots and is a bit trickier. targeting JSX support for a future version though!

[@towneynewby7185]

Amazing 😲! You are missing out > Promo`SM.