I'm building a tool that turns HTML into a PDF. It isn't released yet. A beta is coming soon, and I want to share the story from the start. How it started In one of my personal project, AI Question Ge
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Love that this started as a fix for your own project. That's usually the best kind of tool. I run a resume builder, so PDF export is the feature I worry about most. Multilingual is where I'd stress-test you first: Hindi conjuncts, or Hindi and English mixed on one line, break a lot of HTML-to-PDF setups unless the font is embedded. Do you bundle something like Noto, or does the caller pass the font? Also curious if the PDF link expires. For files with personal data, a short-lived URL would be a big trust point. Following for the beta.
Akash Pal
Thanks for the thoughtful comment. Great questions! Fonts are bundled — Noto Sans Devanagari (plus 10 other Indic scripts) ships with the API, so Hindi conjuncts and mixed Hindi/English lines shape correctly out of the box, and you can embed your own via @font-face. The PDF link is presigned and expires in 1 hour for safety. And yes — PDFs stay in storage until you delete them; a delete endpoint is on the roadmap for the beta, so you'll have full control over your users' data.