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| Open HTML to PDF | WeasyPrint | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 43 | |
| 1,826 | 6,635 | |
| - | 2.5% | |
| 0.0 | 9.4 | |
| 6 months ago | 7 days ago | |
| Java | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Open HTML to PDF
- Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs
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PDF rendering server-side using HTML 5 + CSS 3
I've used OpenHtmlToPdf for years. Combine this with something like Velocity for templating.
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best pdf library to use in 2023?
I would suggest Open HTML to PDF, which is a high-level library to build PDF using HTML strings, so you don't have to learn new complex APIs (assuming you already know HTML and CSS).
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How do you generate PDF reports from HTML?
If you want to generate accessible PDF/UA compliant PDFs, I find https://github.com/danfickle/openhtmltopdf to be the only solution.
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Is Jasper still the best Report Engine?
There is also https://github.com/danfickle/openhtmltopdf/ , which is a fork of flying saucer which has more features and is more actively developed :)
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?
https://weasyprint.org
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.
[0]: https://weasyprint.org/
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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.
[1]: https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/pull/579
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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
https://weasyprint.org/
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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.
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Library to convert HTML to pdf in Golang
In a recent project I used https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/ it is written in python, so you will need to use it like so:
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RE: If you had to pick a library from another language (Rust, JS, etc.) that isn’t currently available in Python and have it instantly converted into Python for you to use, what would it be?
You should maybe check out weasyprint. https://weasyprint.org/
What are some alternatives?
OpenPDF - OpenPDF is a free Java library for creating and editing PDF files, with a LGPL and MPL open source license. OpenPDF is based on a fork of iText. We welcome contributions from other developers. Please feel free to submit pull-requests and bugreports to this GitHub repository.
ReportLab
flyingsaucer - XML/XHTML and CSS 2.1 renderer in pure Java
PyPDF2 - A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files
Apache PDFBox - Mirror of Apache PDFBox
WKHTMLToPDF - Convert HTML to PDF using Webkit (QtWebKit)
itext-java - iText for Java represents the next level of SDKs for developers that want to take advantage of the benefits PDF can bring. Equipped with a better document engine, high and low-level programming capabilities and the ability to create, edit and enhance PDF documents, iText can be a boon to nearly every workflow.
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.
itext-dotnet - iText for .NET is the .NET version of the iText library, formerly known as iTextSharp, which it replaces. iText represents the next level of SDKs for developers that want to take advantage of the benefits PDF can bring. Equipped with a better document engine, high and low-level programming capabilities and the ability to create, edit and enha
PDFMiner - Python PDF Parser (Not actively maintained). Check out pdfminer.six.
Tabula - Extract tables from PDF files
MathJax - Beautiful and accessible math in all browsers