Level 75
Probably not. Maybe chunk into a few smaller pdf's.
If filling your tank and if a motorcycle it's fast, but a SUV with a 30 gallon tank is going to be slower.
Same for some processing.
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Apr 4, 2025
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Level 7
Generating Very Long PDF's
Do you know the best way to optimize generation of very large PDFs?
For my work we generate PDFs of tags to print for a nurseries trees. Several hundred tags are generated at a time, so this can end with a PDF with a couple hundred pages.
Using DomPDF currently, but only able to generate a PDF with around 400 tags at this point without getting a timeout.
Don't want to create a background job for this, as I'd like users to be able to click to download without having to wait too long.
Any ideas?
Level 73
The only way that I see, is to create a background job, so that the user can start the generation of the pdf, and then broadcasts when it's done, so the user can download it.
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Level 7
@Tray2 Yeah I thought about that, but issue is I want immediate feedback and downloads to happen with one click. Is this doable with a job like that?
Level 73
@cwray-tech Probably with some javascript it should be possible
Level 122
I got so fed up with pdf driver issues, inconsistency with local and prod, wierd css and font issues, I decided to outsource pdf generation.
After 6 months, the service has been flawless, and reproduces my on-screen css grid layout perfectly
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Level 7
@Snapey I will check it out! Thanks for sharing
Level 7
Thank you to all of you. I'm considering using jsPdf on the frontend, as I've noticed it's way faster than doing in on the backend with dom pdf...
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