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Comment by 1oooqooq | Hacker News Reader

pdf/ps can easily be created in a way that data for text and qr code fields are easily in plain text. seems like yall focusing too much on the higher level tools instead of what's right in front of you.

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Company branding is an important aspect of PDF creation that many tools struggle to handle correctly. PDF documents often need to include logos, company colors, fonts, and other branding elements. Puppeteer is popular because you can control these aspects through CSS. However, Puppeteer can be challenging to work with for larger documents, as each change requires programming effort or when your software needs to needs to serve multiple clients each with different requirements.

Yep, it's mostly about branding and control. It needs certain concrete layout and logos, and has to be relatively easy to change them.

We also render shipping labels in PDF, and we have to be VERY strict with that. But we're still not touching that, as that process is not at slow and problematic as the invoicing one.

how having the value and name in an invoice as plain text affect branding? or do you mean there client branding is added to the invoice??

the end result when you open the file is still a regular pdf. it's just encoded with some areas unpacked

It's not about the plaintext, but about the layout, design and logos. At least in our case.

so why you bring that up on a thread that had nothing to with layout? I'm honestly confused

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