PDF Generation in Codebases Is Notoriously Brittle and Avoided
Engineering teams accumulate fragile, unmaintained PDF generation code that nobody wants to touch. The problem spans every industry requiring documents — invoices, reports, contracts, exports. Existing libraries are painful to maintain and difficult to style consistently across environments.
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