pdf-lib VS react-pdf

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?

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

I do not know if some plugin exists, but maybe you have to take a look at https://pdf-lib.js.org/

PDFmake or pdf-lib would be the way to go in my opinion.

Sure! You can build your own PDF editor with a combination of PDF.js and PDF-lib

I stand on the shoulders of giants, namely PDF-lib, PDF-js and React-beautiful-DND – everything else is pretty much custom code.

How one can use a library such as PDF-Lib (npm, website) that:

I built my side-project https://pdfvise.com/ using https://pdf-lib.js.org/ for pdf manipulations.

Using react-pdf, we crafted a solution that allowed users to manipulate their reports with an impressive degree of flexibility. But, as data grew (imagine trying to cram an entire financial year's worth of invoices, up to 22,000 rows, into one PDF), our solution began to falter, especially on older PCs with limited resources.

https://github.com/diegomura/react-pdf is good as well if you want to use React.

Been using https://github.com/diegomura/react-pdf for this purpose for years

Uses React Native like components and styling.

WYSIWYG: https://react-pdf.org/repl

Thank you. This is certainly possible. The library I'm using for rendering the PDF (https://react-pdf.org/) does support Node.js as well. This is a good point, I suppose a lot of people will have their resumes in GitHub.

So something like this for the signature and you could use react-pdf for the PDF. Although you should consider lazy loading as it’s a big library, or render the PDF on the server to prevent bloating your UI.

Website: https://react-pdf.org/

I'm using the "react-pdf" library to generate a small PDF with some information needed by the user. Its supposed to look like a receipt and it will be printed by a thermal printer that can print basically any PDF if it is configured properly (page size etc). I can generate the PDF without any problems and render it to the screen. But at the moment I need to implement the 'print' feature of this same PDF, but I'm not having success into making this happen. Im using "printJS" library too.

Did you look into KendoReact PDF Generator and React-pdf?