Hacker News: kappadi3

New comment by kappadi3 in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"

kappadi3 — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:57:19 +0000

We ended up using a service like yakpdf, for HTML to PDF generation.

It handled most of the rendering issues out of the box compared to headless browser setups.

New comment by kappadi3 in "Ask HN: Is there a way to render URLs to PDFs on Android?"

kappadi3 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:13:56 +0000

yakpdf can handle HTML/URL to PDF conversion through an API without dealing with browser setup or headless tools.

New comment by kappadi3 in "Quest for Permissively Licensed PDF Library in C#"

kappadi3 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:41:02 +0000

If you ever revisit alternatives, you might want to try YakPDF It gives you:

- HTML → PDF without any browser engine - PDF compression & optimization - Simple API for manual PDF generation - Text extraction - No native dependencies and cheaper than Aspose

It’s not a full drop-in replacement for every Aspose feature, but it covers the core workflow you mentioned and is much lighter to integrate.

https://rapidapi.com/yakpdf-yakpdf/api/yakpdf (open via firefox)

New comment by kappadi3 in "Ask HN: What is nowadays (opensource) way of converting HTML to PDF?"

kappadi3 — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 15:36:07 +0000

Puppeteer and Playwright are the main open-source options nowadays, both solid for HTML → PDF once your print CSS is sorted. Don’t forget proper page breaks (break-before/after/inside) — e.g. break-after: page works in Chromium, while always doesn’t. For trickier pagination you can look at Paged.js, and I’d test layouts in Chrome/Edge before automating.

Shameless plug: I run yakpdf.com, a hosted Puppeteer-based service if you want to avoid self-hosting. https://rapidapi.com/yakpdf-yakpdf/api/yakpdf