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Automate typesetting for books, journals, textbooks, and catalogs. FormaTeX delivers the precision of TeX Live via a simple REST API — no server setup, no dependency management.
\section{Why LaTeX}
Publishers who care about print quality choose LaTeX because no other typesetting system matches its output. Word processors reflow text on every save; LaTeX produces a fixed, deterministic layout — essential for books and journals where page references must remain stable across editions, print runs, and formats.
LaTeX's paragraph formatting algorithms handle hyphenation, justification, and optical margin alignment — producing output that far exceeds word-processor quality.
Fixed layouts never reflow. Page 47 will always start at the same line, chapter after chapter, edition after edition.
AMS-LaTeX provides the gold standard for typesetting equations, proofs, and formulas found in academic and scientific publications.
\section{Pain Points}
Managing TeX Live installations across compile workers requires constant updates, package conflicts, and sysadmin overhead.
A package version difference between dev and production silently changes your output. Hunting the diff costs days.
LaTeX compilation is CPU-intensive. Scaling compile workers for peak demand means managing infrastructure, not building products.
\section{Solutions}
One HTTPS endpoint. POST your .tex source, receive a PDF. No client library required.
Choose pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX, or LuaLaTeX per request. Switch engines without touching your infra.
Full TeX Live distribution pre-installed. Every CTAN package available out of the box.
Parallel compilation workers handle burst traffic from batch jobs without queue starvation.
Each compilation runs in an isolated sandbox. Your LaTeX source never touches another customer's environment.
Long-running book compilations? Use async mode with webhooks to receive the PDF when it's ready.
\section{Use Cases}
Compile individual chapters during authoring, then merge PDFs for the final book. Full XeLaTeX font support for multilingual editions.
Automate final PDF production from accepted LaTeX manuscripts. Enforce house styles via a shared preamble injected server-side.
Generate student editions, instructor editions, and answer keys from a single LaTeX source using compile-time flags.
Merge product data from your CMS into a LaTeX template to produce print-ready catalogs with correct pagination every time.
99.9%
uptime SLA
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median compile time
All CTAN
packages included
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Connect your manuscript workflow to the FormaTeX API and generate production-quality PDFs without managing a single TeX Live installation.
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We track anonymous usage — page views, feature usage, compilation events — to understand what works and what doesn't. No ads, no personal data, no third-party sharing.