pdf-lib
Open HTML to PDF
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| pdf-lib | Open HTML to PDF | |
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| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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pdf-lib
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Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs
I'm facing that same pain point of programmatic PDF filling. I noodled around in the PDF format and learned it's a bit difficult to deal with fonts and formatting. But I think this client-side library works well enough, as a start: https://pdf-lib.js.org/#:~:text=a%20single%20document.-,Fill...
I've also heard of one paid API that I forgot but seemed to work well, and this related service https://www.jotform.com/, and I also considered porting some server-side libraries to WASM. One day I'll collect all the libraries and findings in a blog post.
Are you looking to programmatically fill any PDF form by detecting the fields? Or are you filling one known PDF template?
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Show HN: PrivatePDF – minimal PDF editor that runs in the browser
Thanks! For PDF form filling, I use the APIs that pdf-lib [0] exposes. That includes text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdowns and options lists. Give it a try and let me know if you find a type of form field that's missing.
[0] https://github.com/Hopding/pdf-lib
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Thinking of throwing in the towel and hiring help - small website business
I do not know if some plugin exists, but maybe you have to take a look at https://pdf-lib.js.org/
- Does no one use PDF files anymore?? In need of a PDF generator package...
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Is node the right choice for HTML to PDF conversion?
PDFmake or pdf-lib would be the way to go in my opinion.
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I made a free PDF editor that works in your browser
Sure! You can build your own PDF editor with a combination of PDF.js and PDF-lib
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I built a wrapper to easily embed my PDF editor (SimplePDF) in any React app!
I stand on the shoulders of giants, namely PDF-lib, PDF-js and React-beautiful-DND – everything else is pretty much custom code.
- PDF editing - client side with canvas or on server?
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How can I use PDF-Lib in Cloudflare Workers?
How one can use a library such as PDF-Lib (npm, website) that:
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PDF Library
I built my side-project https://pdfvise.com/ using https://pdf-lib.js.org/ for pdf manipulations.
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 :)
What are some alternatives?
PDFKit - A JavaScript PDF generation library for Node and the browser
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.
puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome
flyingsaucer - XML/XHTML and CSS 2.1 renderer in pure Java
PyPDF4 - A utility to read and write PDFs with Python
Apache PDFBox - Mirror of Apache PDFBox
qpdf - QPDF: A content-preserving PDF document transformer
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.
PDF.js - PDF Reader in JavaScript
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
markdown-preview-enhanced - One of the 'BEST' markdown preview extensions for Atom editor!
Tabula - Extract tables from PDF files