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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.
svg2pdf.js
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Is node the right choice for HTML to PDF conversion?
You should check out Vercel's Satori package. You can generate SVGs from JSX without a chromium instance. Pair that with something like https://github.com/yWorks/svg2pdf.js/ and you might be onto something.
- Forking Chrome to Turn HTML into SVG
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What's a good way to deliver printable reports?
If you need to print to exact dimensions, you MUST use PDF. This was what i needed, so I draw everything to an SVG, and made sure that my units were in "pt" (that is 1px = 1/72inch). When creating the PDF, I specified that the units were in "pt" and used https://github.com/yWorks/svg2pdf.js/ to convert the SVG. Note that this has major disadvantages. SVG does not support word wrap by default; you'll have to write your own. You'll also have to get users to specify a paper size in your app. Again, test, test, test. If you want to preview the PDF, not all browsers can display PDF natively (looking at you Android)! Some browsers won't print exact size even in PDF (Android). Some browsers will reduce page margins if printing from an inline iframe preview (Safari). You need annoying workarounds. Like downloading instead of previewing the file on Android, or making sure to always open a new tab on Safari.
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Creating a PDF
I used it with https://github.com/yWorks/svg2pdf.js/ which makes it easy to draw diagrams too.
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Guest WiFi using a QR code
Hmm, after tinkering around a bit, I think according to https://github.com/yWorks/svg2pdf.js/issues/82 , the mask element in the giraffe SVGs is not supported in the PDF converter. It is just dropped, leafing the qraffe rather qr-less.
But I sadly know neither svg enough to think up an alternative approach, or a JS/TS dev enough to see if there are other libraries.
What are some alternatives?
PDFKit - A JavaScript PDF generation library for Node and the browser
canvas2svg - Translates HTML5 Canvas draw commands to SVG
puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome
jsPDF - Client-side JavaScript PDF generation for everyone.
PyPDF4 - A utility to read and write PDFs with Python
dungeonz - Everything for the game Rogueworld. [Moved to: https://github.com/Arcanorum/rogueworld]
qpdf - QPDF: A content-preserving PDF document transformer
react-pdf - 📄 Create PDF files using React
PDF.js - PDF Reader in JavaScript
satori - Enlightened library to convert HTML and CSS to SVG
markdown-preview-enhanced - One of the 'BEST' markdown preview extensions for Atom editor!
TypeStat - Converts JavaScript to TypeScript and TypeScript to better TypeScript. 🧫