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Please make "Preview Statements as PDF" run on a background thread
By -is-this-fft-, history, 3 hours ago, In English

In Polygon, if you go to a contest, this link is almost unusable:

Specifically, I mean the "English (from working copies)". If you have a typical ICPC-style contest with 12 or so problems, it will almost always load for a really long time until I am eventually served with a CloudFlare "timeout" screen. (The one from packages works fine, but sometimes you want to see how the whole contest looks without committing your changes or packaging.)

My suggestion is, if there is truly that much work to do for the server, then run this PDF generation in some sort of background thread and show the user a progress bar.

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This feature has never even worked for me. It always loads some weird error but preview in HTML works fine.

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    Even when creating an empty problem? There are some things that aren't supported for the PDF output because the resulting LaTeX is invalid in some way.

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      110 minutes ago, # ^ |
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      No, but I'm not sure when it doesnt crash. When I read the error logs it's like title too long (lol??) or some weird error with statement

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