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AugusteLef

178 karma · joined January 21, 2022

Computer Scientist, ex-YC founder (w24 FileForge, API for PDF workflows), now focusing on quantitative finance.
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AugusteLef··on Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs
Indeed, and as you mentioned, open-source libraries are always an option. It's worth noting that our open-source library assists in document design, allowing freedom in renderer choice. While the open-source library is aimed at individuals, our API targets businesses of any size. Our pricing can be as low as $0.05 per PDF for high-volume or annual commitments. Additionally, we offer cloud hosting for your documents for up to 90 days, and our pricing includes analytics.
AugusteLef··on Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs
No, we don't currently do that. However, we are considering adding metadata to PDFs, and using pdfmark could be very helpful!
AugusteLef··on Show HN: A new open-source library to design PDF using React
Good question !

For the generation we have an API that you can use npm @onedoc/client which allows you to do unlimited rendering with watermark, and some without the watermark to a certain limit. But you are also free to use any other software or API allowing this (PrinceXML is one of them. In our case we directly convert the bundle HTML/CSS to PDF and have 100% accuracy over the layout conversion (compare to chrome solution for example) as the open-source library react-print-pdf has been design to do that.

About the demo page, 2 choices if you use Onedoc API. 1. you can render your PDF and write it directly in you local machine --> so you can open it on your editor (VScode or whatever) and have side by side the code and the preview 2. you can render the PDF and host it on our cloud platform. You'll get a link to share it with others and you will also be able to preview it directly from our webapp.

Here is some links: API: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@onedoc/client Onedoc App: https://app.onedoclabs.com/login Documentation: 1) react-print-pdf https://react.onedoclabs.com/introduction 2) onedoc API: https://docs.onedoclabs.com/introduction

I hope it helps. let me know

AugusteLef··on Show HN: Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game
Just played it for 10 minutes! Great game. One remark: to start the race, you need to select "restart level" even if you just started the game. I would suggest starting the race by simply pressing enter.
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