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a quick system I hacked together to bundle a few thousand pages of notes I mostly haven’t published before up into an archive of pregenerated HTML

4 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2020-01-03 · latest 2025-10-01

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  1. I just wrote a quick HTML renderer in Python with ReportLab: https://GitHub.com/kragen/dercuano/blob/master/genpdf.py It only handles like 5% of HTML, but it's the 5% I was using. I've also had success producing PDFs with GhostScript from…
    comment by kragen · 2025-10-01 · in Ask HN: What is nowadays (opensource) way of converting HTML to PDF?
  2. …1.6: 1.6 added compressed object streams, and a lot of readers still don't support those. ______ ¹ https://github.com/kragen/dercuano/blob/master/genpdf.py ² http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/laserboot/Makefile
    comment by kragen · 2022-05-04 · in Ask HN: Why is the PDF format so inaccessible?
  3. https://github.com/kragen/dercuano perhaps?
    comment by 7373737373 · 2022-03-05 · in Ask HN: What are some examples of websites where the author learns in the open?
  4. …to work with, which is a phrase very rarely found near the word “PDF”. The PDF renderer is at https://github.com/kragen/dercuano/blob/master/genpdf.py but probably it would have been a better use of time to figure out how to do it in…
    comment by kragen · 2020-01-03 · in How to Write a Book in Emacs (2015)