Are there solutions to generate a catalog in pdf for a printing house from a website?

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Hello everyone, the task is to implement a catalog website with the ability to auto-generate a PDF that they want to send to a printing house for printing.
There are plugins for generating that work on the basis of Wocomerz, but here they are all for screen feed.
Maybe someone came across plugins for generating pdf for digital or offset printing?
It will also be interesting to know who implemented this, if any)

Answer 1

You greatly overestimate the possibilities of PDF writers. At a minimum, when generating these things from pages, everything you feed them should be at 300 or 600 DPI. And on the screen - 72 or 96, something like that.
But you can certainly write. But I haven’t seen a finished one
https://mpdf.github.io/

Answer 2

Printers work with a software package from Adobe, in particular, for layout - InDesign.
InDesign has the ability to import IDML - this is an xml file with markup for future layout, in fact, you can describe everything that will be inside the directory in it, then just open it in Turkey and upload it as PDF. And most likely, this is exactly what the customer wants, because sooner or later he will want to place an advertisement in the same catalog, for example. For example, to fill an empty space (when your number of blocks in the database is not a multiple of the number on the page). Well, you still have to separate JPEG / RGB for the site and TIFF / CMYK for printing. Otherwise, instead of photographs, you will have trash, waste and bloody tears in your catalog.

Answer 3

I would choose any reporting system SSRS for example.
But they have disadvantages.
But if you prepare a code generator for
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX
Then you can get printing quality out of the box.
A little bit of code and your catalog will be just perfect.