Indoctrinatr – A document generation service for PDF documents - Søren Schaffstein
In a time where more and more tasks happen directly in the web and media suggests the "paperless office" to be within reach, digital documents take on an important role.
The PDF format is one very interesting standard to work with since PDF documents offer an interesting range of features:
High compatibility with a huge range of devices and operating systems
Preservation of the documents optical appearance
Important documents can be digitally signed
Documents can be printed and signed manually (e. g. for contracts)
Offline storage of downloaded documents is easy
Many libraries exist that allow the creation of PDF documents. Unfortunately most are somehow limited in functionality, require good programming skills or come with high licensing cost.
On the other hand an immensly powerful solution to PDF creation under a free license exists with LaTeX.
This inspired us at dkd to write an Open Source service to make the power of LaTeX available to web applications via a REST interface. "Indoctrinatr" is a powerful toolkit that enables developers to easily create LaTeX templates that can be accessed via web-interface or REST-interface and thus create data driven PDF documents with ease.
This talk will give a very short introduction to LaTeX and why it is a great choice for PDF creation. By means of different real world examples the advantages of a document generation service will be demonstrated. Within the range of examples will be:
Generation of customised contracts via the web-interface
Generation of data driven graphics within a PDF
Generation of custom address labels with generated barcodes via a TYPO3 extension using the REST-interface
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