Ask HN: Have you built internal tools to generate complex PDFs?

I’m working on a modular doc engine for generating complex PDFs; think insurance policy docs, contracts, compliance forms.

We’ve spoken with insurtech teams dealing with template sprawl from manual copy-paste, PDF logic buried in code that eng teams have to maintain.

If you’ve dealt with this in the past: what did you build? What failed? What would have helped?

Would love your thoughts: https://sutro.one