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Rust App Generates Student Reports via HTML Templates, PDF Export
A developer built a Teacher Assistant App in Rust that generates student report cards by first creating HTML templates with placeholders, then converting them to PDFs. The workflow organizes reports into class-and-exam folders and sanitizes filenames for Windows. It uses egui for the UI and PostgreSQL for data storage.
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The approach of rendering HTML before PDF is a practical pattern for report generation, but the post is more of a tutorial than a novel technical breakthrough.
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