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Show HN: Prince Cloud – Create PDFs with AI Agents(prince.cloud)
2 points by mikeday 7mo ago|0 comments
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by mikeday 10mo ago
Ohhh Nigerian Prince, I thought it was a wrapper for our Prince HTML to PDF formatter, but there is also a JavaScript implementation of Prince of Persia lol.
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by mikeday 11mo ago
yeah, we often refer to the first 90% of the work and the second 90% of the work lol.
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by mikeday 11mo ago
Absolutely! The CSS support, layout engine, PDF output, and JavaScript interpreter are all written in Mercury, while the font support that was originally a mix of Mercury and C has now been rewritten as a standalone Rust project, Allsorts.
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by mikeday 11mo ago
We've spent twenty years working on HTML to PDF conversion and I expect we could easily spend another twenty years, so feel free to give Prince a try if you would rather avoid the headache :)
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by mikeday 7y ago
HarfBuzz is more complete (supports more scripts) and higher performance (we assume, haven't benchmarked yet), but the large C++ codebase can be a little intimidating to dive into. We plan to extend Allsorts to reach feature parity wit
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by mikeday 8y ago
What about compiling existing OpenType fonts to state machines in combination with the shaping rules? That's something we're thinking about for our Rust implementation :)
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by mikeday 8y ago
It's a wrapper around the native process just to simplify passing command-line arguments. (There is also a persistent process mode for speeding up batch processing of many small documents). The browsers don't specialise in PDF gen
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by mikeday 8y ago
We use Mercury at YesLogic to write Prince, our HTML to PDF formatter! [1] We chose it because logic/functional languages are great for tree processing, Mercury was designed for large projects, and because in 2002 there really weren&#x
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Memory Fragmentation in the Boehm-Demers-Weiser Garbage Collector(paul.bone.id.au)
1 points by mikeday 10y ago|0 comments