🧪 Introducing PDFPotion: Solving the PDF problem

[Nakita]

What about vector support and base64 conversion (After generating a PDF file b64 is needed to use in the emails). Many PDF generator here are only focused on raster graphics, Most were not able to provide high quality PDF’s. Any thoughts on templating (Certificate printing, Invoice making etc) with page breaks and vector outputs

[alexcooney5]

@georgecollier

Quick question, how would this be able to handle private data that’s protected by privacy rules?

This is something I’m still figuring out. Would of course be a massive plus if PDFPotion can play nice with privacy rules but I need to do some more digging before I can confirm one way or another.

[alexcooney5]

@Nakita

What about vector support and base64 conversion (After generating a PDF file b64 is needed to use in the emails).

It should be possible to get a base64-encoded string for the PDFs created, but it may not be part of the initial release.

Also, I recently released an update for my PDF Creator plugin that allows you to access a base64-encoded string of the PDF - may be of interest

[New Plugin] PDF Creator

February-24 updates Recently released version 1.17.0 of the PDF Creator plugin. The PDFCreator element now includes a new exposed state called ‘base64-encoded string’ [Screenshot 2024-02-26 at 09.04.32] This exposed state represents a base64-encoded string of the PDF created by the plugin. This can be useful if you want to send the PDF via email and you’re using a plugin that requires a base64-encoded string (for example the Copilot SendGrid plugin).

[georgecollier]

Okay, just bear in mind it’s a complete write off for me (and hopefully others?) for almost all use cases if it requires data being public unfortunately

[tom29]

Same, managing page breaks is key for me as well

[accounts18]

Sounds great @alexcooney5! We’ve used a 3rd party tool for this, often causing delays of more than 15 seconds until the download button is functional, but would love to give it a test drive and check out what you’ve made. Joined the waitlist

[alexcooney5]

Thanks @accounts18!

[alexcooney5]

@georgecollier

Quick question, how would this be able to handle private data that’s protected by privacy rules?

Good news @georgecollier - looks like PDFPotion will be compatible with whatever privacy rules you set. If the user doesn’t have permission to access to certain data, it won’t be included in the PDF (and vice-versa).

[dorilama]

I want to point out that hacking a “run as” with a headless browser logged in as the user in a third-party service just to pretty print some pdf seems like a big security concern for a small return

How to run 'as current user' in AWS Lambda function?

I’m building a plugin that navigates to a page in the user’s Bubble app via a headless browser (which I’m running on AWS Lambda). Access to the data in the underlying Bubble app will be managed via privacy rules. Therefore, I want to effectively ‘run as the current user’ each time the headless browser is triggered and allow it to access the data that is appropriate for the user that triggered the action. I was planning to: Log the underlying users via an API Workflow and generate a Bearer …

How to run 'as current user' in AWS Lambda function?

I’m using Puppeteer to generate PDFs It does indeed work without privacy rules, but I need it to work with privacy rules. Will have to do some digging on this. Ah interesting! This could be the hidden piece of the puzzle.

[alexcooney5]

@dorilama

I want to point out that hacking a “run as” with a headless browser logged in as the user in a third-party service just to pretty print some pdf seems like a big security concern for a small return

It’s a fair point @dorilama. It’s not something I take lightly. I will make it clear what’s going on for anyone that signs up to the service.

You may also be surprised by just how painful printing PDFs currently is for a lot of people!

[Nakita]

Question not answered in full. What about “Vector Graphics”, The output PDF is pixelated when exported using your plugin. Perhaps you need to research on how CraftmyPDF works Its still scores as preferred choice for high quality premium PDF’s

[alexcooney5]

For anyone that comes across this post:

PDF Potion has now been launched! A new forum post that describes what PDF Potion can do can be found here.

If you have any questions, please let me know in that thread or contact me via the Cranford Tech support page