u/LushEcho31

need to turn airtable rows into pdfs in a make scenario.. whats actually worked

client wants ~45 branded pdfs from airtable rows every monday. burned two weekends on make scenarios and im still manually exporting maybe 15 every week

google doc mail merge was fine until conditional sections per row and suddenly im doing document engineering for $0/hr.. docsautomator choking on nested tables, pdfmonkey timing out twice uploading a 2.1mb template, html-to-pdf modules that every automation guru swears by?? 12 test runs on one path alone. 4 mangled fonts. one totally blank page. spent saturday night on this and my girlfriend just stopped asking what i was working on

client thinks its a 20 minute task

anyone actually piping airtable rows into branded pdfs on a schedule without babysitting every execution. what finally worked for you because i feel like im missing something obvious

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u/LushEcho31 — 3 days ago