ayanova/devdocs/todo.txt

@@ -4,6 +4,16 @@
 
 REPORTING
 
+COMMERCIAL OPTIONS
+=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
+
+Look at stimulsoft again, see email, it appears I can buy a single developer and just distribute it with ayanova at will no extra royalties etc
+
+
+
+
+ROLLING MY OWN
+=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
 
 DESIGN
 Users will be able to design report templates inside AyaNova (unless it doesn't seperate as a bundle and bloats too much then maybe as an external app)
@@ -23,7 +33,12 @@ JSReport renders at server and returns result to client, the API docs show prett
 	Note that the api docs also give some ideas as to how I should structure my api
 
 HTML -> PDF
+	JSREPORT has a comparison table of various html to pdf tools here:
+		https://jsreport.net/learn/pdf-recipes
+
+
 	Headless Chrome
+		FAST SPEED (according to jsreport docs)
 		jsreport uses headless chrome by default which has built in pdf from html ability.
 		they use a NODE library Puppeteer for it, but there is a c# wrapper for .net core linux windows mac: https://github.com/hardkoded/puppeteer-sharp
 			some kind of example that may be relevant: https://github.com/kblok/netconfar-puppeteer-sharp-demo/blob/master/hacking-the-browser-api/Controllers/MediumController.cs#L13
@@ -39,12 +54,31 @@ HTML -> PDF
 			These things kind of turned me off this a bit, it's not plug and play and simple
 
 	WeasyPrint
-		https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint
+		SLOWEST SPEED
+		https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint based on python, does it's own rendering doesn't rely on a web browser engine like the rest
+		free, recommended by wkhtmltopdf author as an alternative
+		May be slow, slower than the other options likely, has some installation steps that are a bit convoluted but ironically only for windows as it's included in package managers
+		Very good support for modern css3 PAGE properties apparently
+		WRAPPER
+			https://github.com/balbarak/WeasyPrint-netcore/blob/master/src/Balbarak.WeasyPrint/WeasyPrintClient.cs
 
 
 	wkhtmltopdf 
+		MEDIUM SPEED
 		https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html
-		Well used, old but likely enough for our purposes
+		Well used, old based on older webkit so doesn't support css3 but likely enough for our purposes
+		has an easy installer for all platforms
+		free
+		Has warnings about how unsanitized html can take down a server or own it somehow
+		WRAPPERS
+			https://github.com/carloscds/HtmlToPDFCore/tree/master/HtmlToPDFCore  This one looks cool, all platforms supported includes binary possibly?
+			https://blog.elmah.io/generate-a-pdf-from-asp-net-core-for-free/
+
+
+HTML -> DOCX
+	This is a possiblity that needs to be researched, instead of pdf go docx which is in theory multi platform and openable on other devices? Not sure
+	https://github.com/EricWhiteDev/Open-Xml-PowerTools
+
 
 TEMPLATE ENGINE
 	Handlebars by default for jsreport which is easy peasy to work with