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# Luzifer / tex-api
`tex-api` is a docker container being able to generate a PDF document from a LaTeX file and additional assets using a simple `curl` call.
## Usage
- Start the container at a trusted location:
`docker run -d -p 3000:3000 -v /data/tex-api:/storage quay.io/luzifer/tex-api`
- Compile a ZIP file, send it to the API and get the result:
```bash
# zip -r letter.zip fonts main.tex sig.jpeg
adding: fonts/ (stored 0%)
adding: fonts/Roboto-Black.ttf (deflated 46%)
adding: fonts/Roboto-BlackItalic.ttf (deflated 46%)
adding: fonts/Roboto-Bold.ttf (deflated 47%)
adding: fonts/Roboto-BoldItalic.ttf (deflated 45%)
adding: fonts/Roboto-Italic.ttf (deflated 47%)
adding: fonts/Roboto-Light.ttf (deflated 47%)
adding: fonts/Roboto-LightItalic.ttf (deflated 47%)
adding: fonts/Roboto-Medium.ttf (deflated 46%)
adding: fonts/Roboto-MediumItalic.ttf (deflated 46%)
adding: fonts/Roboto-Regular.ttf (deflated 46%)
adding: fonts/Roboto-Thin.ttf (deflated 44%)
adding: fonts/Roboto-ThinItalic.ttf (deflated 42%)
adding: fonts/RobotoMono-Bold.ttf (deflated 41%)
adding: fonts/RobotoMono-BoldItalic.ttf (deflated 40%)
adding: fonts/RobotoMono-Italic.ttf (deflated 39%)
adding: fonts/RobotoMono-Light.ttf (deflated 42%)
adding: fonts/RobotoMono-LightItalic.ttf (deflated 41%)
adding: fonts/RobotoMono-Medium.ttf (deflated 41%)
adding: fonts/RobotoMono-MediumItalic.ttf (deflated 40%)
adding: fonts/RobotoMono-Regular.ttf (deflated 41%)
adding: fonts/RobotoMono-Thin.ttf (deflated 41%)
adding: fonts/RobotoMono-ThinItalic.ttf (deflated 40%)
adding: main.tex (deflated 58%)
adding: sig.jpeg (deflated 3%)
# curl -sSL -H 'Accept: application/tar' --data-binary @letter.zip localhost:3000/job | tar -xvf -
main.log
main.pdf
```
What happened here is we packed all assets required for generating the letter into the ZIP archive, pushed it to the API, waited for it to build a TAR and extracted the resulting files from it.
## API
```
POST /job Create a new processing job (request body is expected
to be a ZIP file having at least one .tex file at the
root of the archive) and redirect to the /wait endpoint
GET /job/{uuid} Retrieve the status of the processing job
GET /job/{uuid}/wait Wait and redirect until the processing job is finished
or errored
GET /job/{uuid}/download Download the resulting archive (You may specify an
Accept header to select whether to receive a ZIP or
TAR archive.)
```
