pdfgen
Simple application for generating PDFs (by navikt)
painless-pdf
Painless PDF generation for node and the browser (by DevLeoko)
| pdfgen | painless-pdf | |
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| 1 | 1 | |
| 14 | 29 | |
| - | - | |
| 8.7 | 7.0 | |
| 6 days ago | about 2 months ago | |
| Kotlin | TypeScript | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
pdfgen
Posts with mentions or reviews of pdfgen.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-06.
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Ask HN: How to generate PDFs from the back end?
I recently fond output that a Norwegian government agency open sourced a micro service for generating PDF
I haven't used it, but it looks promising. You create templates based on html (Handlebars templates), which should make it easy to get started.
https://github.com/navikt/pdfgen
It may be worth a look
painless-pdf
Posts with mentions or reviews of painless-pdf.
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Ask HN: How to generate PDFs from the back end?
Generating PDFs is a pain with most libraries, especially if the content is dynamic and should span multiple pages.
If you can use NodeJS on your backend, you might want to take a look at my PDF Library: https://github.com/DevLeoko/painless-pdf
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pdfgen and painless-pdf you can also consider the following projects:
react-pdf - 📄 Create PDF files using React
pdfmake-wrapper - Wrapper based on pdfmake library (http://pdfmake.org) to generate PDF documents in an easy and readable way.
z3c.rml - An alternative implementation of RML