Hi;
On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 7:12 PM, David G <lsmb...@sbts.com.au> wrote:
> The Problem:
>
> - LaTeX doesn't support Unicode directly, you have to switch to XeLaTeX
> - A LaTeX install to suit our needs by default on a minimal install of
> debian
> Packages: libtemplate-plugin-latex-perl
> texlive-latex-recommended libimage-size-perl liblatex-decode-perl
> Will use 687 MB of disk space DL Size: 375 MB
> - LaTeX is difficult for most people to write or modify
> - LaTeX is even harder to get top class results from (because it's
> hard to write)
>
> A Solution:
>
> - Use wkhtmltopdf which uses the WebKit rendering Engine, the same as
> Chrome and Safari
> - We get up to date support for CSS3 and HTML5
> - The size of the install drops dramatically
> Packages: wkhtmltopdf
> Will use 176 MB of disk space DL Size: 52.6 MB
> A massive saving of 500MB and 322MB respectively
> - The package that is in debian stable is the same version as wkhtml
> stable
> - More people know how to code HTML
> - It eliminates the need for 2 templates
> we currently have one for on screen display, and one for
> printing/emailing
>
> There are many other options out there, but most have limited support for
> css2 and html4, and few support css3 and html5
>
> Does anyone have experience with this or other tools for converting HTML
> to PDF?
> such as mpdf, tcpdf, fpdf, dompdf. (NOTE: these would likely be a larger
> install as they require PHP)
>
I am not opposed to adding support for wkhtmltopdf but I don't want to
deprecate LaTeX or XeTeX. I don;t think we lose much by continuing to
support LaTeX and XeTeX, but if you ever try to do typesetting of anything
complex in HTML, you will find that HTML and CSS lack some very important
concepts in typesetting. I could imagine if warranty forms need to be
added at some point, those could become important.
>
> Regards
> David G
>
>
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