Arc Programming Language Reviews

DocRaptor Reviews

1. Alex_E

   almost 3 years ago
   Cool app

   I've been using it for a while. It's great to create contracts.

   🏁 Competitors: pdfmatrix.com
2. Megan Mahdavi

   | Principal Consultant at Sunreach | almost 3 years ago
   Great app - resolves the limitations of other doc/merge apps

   We wanted an app that would allow for custom branding and layout, the font of our choice, and merge fields across our main SF objects. Previously we used DocGen, which led to a morass of configuration to put fields in exactly the place they needed to be for the tables, as well as a bunch of SOQL queries to manage conditional logic. The VF doc generator can't accommodate the fonts we use in our branding. And so DocRaptor has been the perfect solution.

   Our developer built the contracts, and we went live within weeks with complete branding, flexibility in the data merges (we were able to remove a ton of bad config) and it's easy to manage.

   👍 Pros:    Flexible|Great customer support|Super fast
3. Amaury Bouchard

   | Founder at Rolis | almost 3 years ago
   The best HTML to PDF solution

   I have been using DocRaptor for 6 years, both for my professionnal and personnal projects. After trying several free and/or open source HTML to PDF solutions, I was happy to find this service. It's the most efficient solution, which generates the most accurate PDF documents.

   Since it's a SaaS service, there is nothing to install, no library dependencies nor experimental software that you're not sure it will be supported in the future.

   There is a lot of options and CSS rules to dig in if you want to get PDF files that exactly matches what you want. But the other solutions I tried didn't have these options, and the result was not good enough.

   🏁 Competitors: pdfmatrix.com, SelectPdf, pdflayer, Api2Pdf, PDFCrowd

   👍 Pros:    Simple api|No dependencies|Best pdf result|A lot of options to help you create the pdf you need|Good customer support

   👎 Cons:    A lot of css rules to learn if you want to get the perfect pdf of your dreams... but at least these rules exist!

Arc Programming Language mentions (16)

• Lobsters

  Here you can find the latest public code: http://arclanguage.org/ But I don't think there has been any public updates since that release. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Twenty-five open-source network emulators and simulators you can use in 2023

  Well, kind of, at least considering the last public version of Arc, that HN uses (found here: http://arclanguage.org/) It seems to be storing stuff directly on disk, on the same host that the software itself runs on. So you're right if you consider the filesystem a sort of database, but otherwise no :). - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Ask HN: What would it take for HN to become ActivityPub compatible?

  >Where is the HN source code right now? Free and Open? Yes and no. HN itself is running a proprietary fork of Arc Lisp, which you can find here[0]. The Arc maintainters don't take public PRs or feature requests, and HN itself has numerous changes to the codebase which aren't public for business reasons. There is a public fork of Arc called Anarki[1] which has no direct connection to HN or Arc Lisp, and for which... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Goodbye, waitlist. Hello, Arc 1.0

  Dammit, I thought this was about Arc language (the language/platform that HN uses, http://arclanguage.org/). Guess I'm stuck with using Anarki still. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Ask HN: Dang, could the login page get a title?

  The original version was open sourced (Perl artistic License) http://arclanguage.org/ There is an active fork in https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki but it's totally independent and the current conde in HN can be (very) different. My guess is that it's very difficult to keep all the details of the secret sauce hidden. They change the details very often. For... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

DocRaptor mentions (4)

• Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs

  It sounds like this is as advanced as DocRaptor[1]. They have what I consider to be the best PDF generation API, giving complete control over the documents you need to create. The pricing is similar. If you'd rather do it for free weasyprint[2] is the best open source alternative. Another more affordable option you might want to consider is Urlbox[3]. (Disclosure: I work on this) Urlbox's rendering engine is based... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• How do you generate PDF reports from HTML?

  We built the DocRaptor API to let developers have affordable access to the commercial Prince PDF engine. We have Node code examples throughout the documentation. Source: over 1 year ago

• What is the best online HTML to PDF converter?

  I'd argue our service, DocRaptor, is the best because it's the only one powered by the Prince PDF engine. Unlike open-source, browser-based conversion engines, Prince was custom-built just for converting HTML into PDFs and offers a lot of unique functionality for making more complex PDFs. Source: about 2 years ago

• Is it possible to render a RazorPage (inc. CSS) to a PDF file and download via WebAPI?

  I work for https://docraptor.com, which is an HTML to PDF API. We have a C# agent. Source: almost 3 years ago