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# Technical

## Architecture

PrintGrid has been designed to be source-agnostic, so in addition the the headless PrintGrid API, its accompanying Design-UI, as well as the PDF renderers, there are adapters for every flavor of data source system (called `$PIM` here for short).

The default use case is that the `$PIM` triggers the entire stack by requesting a PDF of certain article(s), receives a processing ticket in return, with which it can then poll for the completed PDF, and then finally download said PDF.

![Architecture Diagram](https://doc.brix.ch/user/pages/08.PrintGrid/02.technical/arch.png)

In the back-end, the API coordinates the request, first to fetch the data from `$PIM` (through a configured facade), and then sending it off to a render engine, which transforms the data to HTML and then in turn to a PDF.

The intermediary HTML facilitates easy customizing of your particular layout, as many people "speak" HTML/CSS.

## API

See the [Swagger-Docs](https://brix.printgrid.brix.ch/swagger-ui/index.html) - as a third party integrator, you only need to look at [render-endpoint](https://brix.printgrid.brix.ch/swagger-ui/index.html#/render-controller), 1. /query 2. /status and 3. /pdf

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