pdfjs
A Portable Document Format (PDF) generation library targeting both the server- and client-side. (by rkusa)
svg2pdf.js
A javascript-only SVG to PDF conversion utility that runs in the browser. Brought to you by yWorks - the diagramming experts (by yWorks)
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| pdfjs | svg2pdf.js | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 5 | |
| 760 | 625 | |
| - | 3.5% | |
| 6.9 | 5.8 | |
| 4 months ago | 19 days ago | |
| JavaScript | TypeScript | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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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.
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Is node the right choice for HTML to PDF conversion?
pdfjs was pretty good when I used it https://github.com/rkusa/pdfjs
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Astro JS non-HTML Routes: File & Resource API
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.
svg2pdf.js
Posts with mentions or reviews of svg2pdf.js.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-13.
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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?
When comparing pdfjs and svg2pdf.js you can also consider the following projects:
pdf-lib - Create and modify PDF documents in any JavaScript environment
react-pdf - 📄 Create PDF files using React
canvas2svg - Translates HTML5 Canvas draw commands to SVG
pdfmake - Client/server side PDF printing in pure JavaScript
jsPDF - Client-side JavaScript PDF generation for everyone.
chrome-headless-render-pdf
dungeonz - Everything for the game Rogueworld. [Moved to: https://github.com/Arcanorum/rogueworld]
satori - Enlightened library to convert HTML and CSS to SVG
node-anvil - Node API Client for Anvil