State of framework & looking for contributors!!

[philprime]

Hi there, many of you already know me, but I am the original creator and lead-maintainer of TPPDF.

I started the project in 2016 as I was in need of creating PDFs in a recipe management app. Over the years I continued working on TPPDF, even tough said app doesn't even exist anymore.

Ever since then I unfortunately never had a real use case in my projects again. Therefore working on the framework is mostly done next to other projects and time is rather scarce. I do enjoy working on TPPDF, as I believe this sophisticated, free PDF generation solution should have existed way earlier than when I started working on it.

Now that I only have limited time to invest, I am asking YOU, all active users/contributors of this framework, to help me out:

• Please, open up more issues if you encounter new bugs.
• Please, comment/mark duplicate issues, so I can close them and keep a clean state.
• Please, add as much information as possible when opening up issues. Especially a working code example any developer can download, test and directly reproduce the issue makes it way easier to invest time.
• Please, (if possible) let me know you are using the project/add your app to the list. It keeps any developer (not only myself) more motivated to keep working, as it is almost impossible to track, how many users actually use/rely on the framework.

...and also most importantly:

• Please, create Pull-Requests! If I don't find the time to investigate an issue, but you already found a solution, let me know in the comments. I will review all code, so we can keep the quality and I will give feedback to your contribution. If necessary we will start a discussion, to get the most out of it. (FYI, there is no bad code, just different levels of experience. So don't worry too much about that). Also a big help is clarifying method names and documentation!

I also want you to know, that we are not developing TPPDF to be a commercial solution (only derivatives of it), but instead because of our believes in Open Source software. As it hardly generates any money, I can't give it the highest priority and only work on it on the side of my every-day tasks.

I am very thankful to anyone who has donated before, or will in the future! No matter how much, I always have and always will see it as a token of appreciation, and be grateful! ❤️

If you have a time-critical issue or a need of consulting, that should to be resolved in a closer future, I can give you professional paid support, so please reach out to me either on Twitter @philprimes or on our website techprimate.com.

Hopefully this gives you a little more insight in what's going on, and why the development of the framework seems to be stale.

Thank you so much for your understanding!

Best regards,

Phil

[ptrkstr]

After struggling with pdf generation from WKWebView for a long time now I was relieved to come across your project. I've only played around with it for a little bit but it's already achieved what I need it to.
I can't thank you enough for creating this!
You've got yourself sponsor ❤️

P.S. For others out there who gain value from this, please also consider sponsoring this project for as little as the cost of 1 coffee a month.

[philprime]

@ptrkstr Thank you so much!!

[brendand]

Super valuable project for me. I sponsored. I'm just getting started with it, but it's a very well done framework. Thanks so much Phil!