How I Built a PDF Invoice Generation API (and What I Learned About PDF Rendering

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<div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight markdown"><code>privacy webdevEvery time I uploaded a file to an online PDF tool, I wondered: what happens to it