> By converting our HTML templates into TEX formats and utilizing pdflatex for PDF generation, we observed a 10X increase in speed compared to the original Puppeteer way of generating
8*60/10 = 48 minutes. So this speedup alone would've been enough, wouldn't it?
Crazy example of how fast typst is: 30”x30” document with 2600 tiny images generates a 40MB PDF in under a half second.
Check typst out. It’s amazing. Not quite latex equivalent in some ways but moving fast on an amazing foundation.
This looks much more reasonable than fpdf's bare bones nature, or wkhtmltopdf / snappy / puppeteer needing esoteric, old CSS specs and having a lot of quirks because of it.
Particularly happy at how it can swap page size as needed.