pdfjs VS pdfmake

Compare pdfjs vs pdfmake and see what are their differences.

pdfjs

A Portable Document Format (PDF) generation library targeting both the server- and client-side. (by rkusa)

pdfmake

Client/server side PDF printing in pure JavaScript (by bpampuch)
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MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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pdfjs

Posts with mentions or reviews of pdfjs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-13.
  • Is node the right choice for HTML to PDF conversion?
    6 projects | /r/node | 13 Jan 2023
    pdfjs was pretty good when I used it https://github.com/rkusa/pdfjs
  • Astro JS non-HTML Routes: File & Resource API
    2 projects | dev.to | 5 Oct 2022
    We use the pdfjs package here to generate the PDF for us. It just has dummy content in our case. You might generate it from scratch or compose it from other PDFs in your real-world app. See more on pdfjs usage in the docs. The most important part is the output we return in line 12. For a static site, aim to return an object with a body field which is a string. For SSR you can return a Response object instead and even stream HTML. We use binary encoding here which makes sure Astro encodes PDFs including images (for example) correctly — thanks to @altano for tip here.

pdfmake

Posts with mentions or reviews of pdfmake. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-13.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pdfjs and pdfmake you can also consider the following projects:

pdf-lib - Create and modify PDF documents in any JavaScript environment

jsPDF - Client-side JavaScript PDF generation for everyone.

react-pdf - 📄 Create PDF files using React

PDF.js - PDF Reader in JavaScript

chrome-headless-render-pdf

PDFKit - A JavaScript PDF generation library for Node and the browser

satori - Enlightened library to convert HTML and CSS to SVG

Papa Parse - Fast and powerful CSV (delimited text) parser that gracefully handles large files and malformed input

node-anvil - Node API Client for Anvil

diff2html - Pretty diff to html javascript library (diff2html)

svg2pdf.js - A javascript-only SVG to PDF conversion utility that runs in the browser. Brought to you by yWorks - the diagramming experts

jBinary - High-level API for working with binary data.