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PDF Generation in Azure Functions V2

by bill-s, 2018-02-19T21:05:45.755Z

PDF generation. Yawn. But, every enterprise application has an “export to PDF” feature. There are obstacles to overcome when generating PDFs from Azure Web Apps and Functions. The first obstacle is the sandbox Azure uses to execute code. You can read about the sandbox in the “Azure Web App sandbox” documentation. This article explicitly calls out PDF generation as a potential problem. The sandbox prevents an app from using most of the kernel’s graphics API, which many PDF generators use either directly or indirectly.

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