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which expensive library did you use?
There is PDFkit which uses WebAssembly on the client side. That way you can outsource the computing power to the client and save yourself an expensive Acrobat Server licence and save traffic.
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@heyheni itext.. we were considering some other, but those simply did not meet some of our requirements (pdf/a format, generating from html, input fields, blablabla), so right now we are stuck to his.
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