Athena

@jamiequackers Looks like it is a container you can deploy to set up your own PDF conversion microservice. Like for your website. Looks pretty nice. Downloading to try it now right now.

@jamiequackers I believe it's a totally different use-case. The intent here is not that you print pages you've manually browed into PDFs, but rather that you automate it. A few sample use-cases that come to mind: - Allow a website to provide a "Share this article/product/page with a friend" and email them a PDF - Let your app/crawler create snapshots of pages you've found (e.g. via RSS, search) as PDF - Extract text or full page into PDF for viewing in a non-browser env, like within an app Basically anything where the PDF conversion needs to be done on a server, not a client.

@guypod Oh that's awesome - the single line spiel doesn't make that clear! Already seeing a use for this to take KB articles/Tech digest on the road on my Kindle

@jamiequackers - @guypod is totally right. There is an open source tool called wkhtmltopdf that lots of people already use for this, but it relies on some outdated components. Athena's basically a drop-in replacement.

@arachnys @jamiequackers @guypod Interesting. We're using wkhtmltopdf in our Rails app to generate PDFs. Do I need to fire up a docker in order to use Athena?

@chrisbuttenham by far the best tool I'm aware of is https://github.com/coolwanglu/pd... There's also a project from Mozilla, PDF.js, that actually parses and renders PDFs in the browser: https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/

@arachnys Thank you!

@arachnys this is great info. Thanks.

Similarly, any way to go from xml or json to html then PDF?

@arachnys @amits510 You can try VancePDF.com which is also free and amazing