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Proposal: use markdown HTML templating for PDF generation
I found a few methods for generating PDFs from markdown using HTML templates. I presume that this would greatly shrink the size of the docker build image, and would possibly be a more accessible tool chain for future contributors or for teams maintaining their own forks.
I understand that this would be a departure from the existing DOCX generator, and from the new Latex endeavors. This is meant as a jumping off point for discussing the pros and cons, and is not meant to say that the existing tools don't have merit.
In a general order of preference, here are some of the methods and tools I've found:
Whatever works! For me it seems reasonable.
My worry is that there are parallel works to solve the same problem and in the end some of them is wasted time. To avoid that, please sync goals and information with "makefile" team.
Hey @elarlang I would say @ike IS the "makefile" team at this point. At least the manager of it. And he is in sync with Josh and the original makefile author.
Would love thoughts from @tghosth and @lfservin on this one. If no one objects, I can work on a proof of concept PR.
The only objection I would have is the customization of the ASVS by anyone interested in adopting it for their own purposes. I agree that latex is sometimes cumbersome, but it's not too difficult to change a couple of things and then you have a document that will surely match your company's look and feel for policies.
Hi @ike, what was decided on this in the end, did you discuss with @lfservin ?
I don't think this was fully decided -- I have been putzing on a POC but haven't given it an enormous amount of work.
Ok so do we want to keep this issue open or is this just another part of the overall export functionality issue?
I think we should close this. It's possibly a good direction to move, but I think we should push behind @lfservin's LaTeX strategy for now, at least for 5.0.