painless-pdf VS pdfgen

Compare painless-pdf vs pdfgen and see what are their differences.

painless-pdf

Painless PDF generation for node and the browser (by DevLeoko)

pdfgen

Simple application for generating PDFs (by navikt)
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painless-pdf

Posts with mentions or reviews of painless-pdf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-06.
  • Ask HN: How to generate PDFs from the back end?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 May 2023
    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

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.
  • Ask HN: How to generate PDFs from the back end?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 May 2023
    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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing painless-pdf and pdfgen you can also consider the following projects:

pdfmake-wrapper - Wrapper based on pdfmake library (http://pdfmake.org) to generate PDF documents in an easy and readable way.

react-pdf - 📄 Create PDF files using React

z3c.rml - An alternative implementation of RML