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6,552 | 3,267 | |
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BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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WeasyPrint
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Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs
Is there a reason you didn't consider something like Weasyprint?
I've gone through a number of systems to convert CV's, business cards, and other docs and it hasn't let me down yet.
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CSS for Printing to Paper
You don't _have_ to use a browser. I had very good results with Weasyprint [0]. And there's also PrinceXML [1] if you're willing to pay.
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Show HN: A new open-source library to design PDF using React
Thanks for your answer! I imagined you would be using PrinceXML behind the scenes since that is probably the gold standard in HTML+CSS rendering.
The only open source alternative I know of is WeasyPrint at https://weasyprint.org/. I'm not sure how well it fares against PrinceXML, though.
And thanks for the pointer to Taffy - I didn't know it before!
- 1.5M PDFs in 25 Minutes
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Htmldocs: Typeset and Generate PDFs with HTML/CSS
Flexbox support has been [included][1] since 2018, although my use case was the prototypical one - a single row w/ 3 columns - so YMMV with how it handles more complex layouts.
Some people might be interested in https://weasyprint.org/
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How to Simply Generate a PDF From HTML in Symfony With WeasyPrint
Performance is not the strength of WeasyPrint, meaning that heavy HTML files will increase generation time. You should always compress images before attaching them, as they are not compressed by default. Generating a 50-page-long PDF may take up to a minute in extreme cases, although multi-page documents generated on my project take fewer than 2 seconds to generate.
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Show HN: Invoice Dragon – An Open Source App to Create PDF Invoices for Free
For Python there is Weasyprint: you prepare the invoice as an HTML document, and Weasyprint turns it into a PDF
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The Gemini protocol seen by this HTTP client person (curl dev)
Well yes, but you can implement HTML+CSS. WeasyPrint did from scratch, and independent implementations of HTML+CSS are considerably more numerous than HTML+CSS+JS.
borb
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Generating PDF from some sort of template (jinja2) with headers, footers, images, not just a printed HTML document.
Have you looked at borb? I’m not sure if it’s exactly what you need I found it useful when doing something similar to you
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looking for an "low dependency" or pythonesque way to generate PDF's
You might take a look at borb
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fpdf2.5.2 : SVG support and comparison with borb
I will also perform a quick comparison with the borb library.
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borb, the pure Python PDF library
Get borb from source on GitHub, or download using PyPi.
- borb v2.0.16
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Hacker News top posts: Sep 18, 2021
Borb – A Python library to read, write, and edit PDF files\ (12 comments)
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Read, write, and edit PDF files with borb, a pure Python library
Confusingly, while the README says AGPL/commercial, the LICENSE file (https://github.com/jorisschellekens/borb/blob/master/LICENSE) says it's GPL.
Page numbers are part of the PageInfo object within a PDF, but it looks like currently this is generated naively [0], so I don't think multiple numbering schemes are currently supported by this library.
[0] https://github.com/jorisschellekens/borb/blob/master/borb/pd...
The README in the GitHub repo for borb is a bit of a better explainer than this landing page (especially for Python programmers).
https://github.com/jorisschellekens/borb/blob/master/README....
What are some alternatives?
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PyPDF2 - A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files
WKHTMLToPDF - Convert HTML to PDF using Webkit (QtWebKit)
QuestPDF - QuestPDF is a modern open-source .NET library for PDF document generation. Offering comprehensive layout engine powered by concise and discoverable C# Fluent API. Easily generate PDF reports, invoices, exports, etc.
PDFMiner - Python PDF Parser (Not actively maintained). Check out pdfminer.six.
MathJax - Beautiful and accessible math in all browsers
pdf2docx - Open source Python library for converting PDF to DOCX.
pymorphy2 - Morphological analyzer / inflection engine for Russian and Ukrainian languages.
pdftabextract - A set of tools for extracting tables from PDF files helping to do data mining on (OCR-processed) scanned documents.