Pdfkit
A Ruby gem to transform HTML + CSS into PDFs using the command-line utility wkhtmltopdf (by pdfkit)
WKHTMLToPDF
Convert HTML to PDF using Webkit (QtWebKit) (by wkhtmltopdf)
| Pdfkit | WKHTMLToPDF | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 56 | |
| 2,920 | 12,952 | |
| 0.1% | - | |
| 2.5 | 4.3 | |
| 9 months ago | over 1 year ago | |
| Ruby | C++ | |
| MIT License | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Pdfkit
Posts with mentions or reviews of Pdfkit.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-24.
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Working with PDFs in Ruby
Like the WickedPDF gem, the PDFkit gem uses wkhtmltopdf on the backend to convert plain HTML and CSS files into PDF documents.
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Solve network errors with PDFKit and wkhtmltopdf
In today's #10stips (where you learn how to solve coding issues within 10 seconds) we talk about the lovely PDFKit gem.
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Good resources to learn how to dynamically generate pdf's in Rails ?
Alternatively, there tools like pdfkit if you want to build off HTML pages (and are happy to deal with wkhtmltopdf and it's older style CSS).
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Converting HTML to PDF using Rails
A couple of popular gems to convert HTML to PDF in Rails are PDFKit and WickedPDF. They both use a command line utility called wkhtmltopdf under the hood; which uses WebKit to render a PDF from HTML.
WKHTMLToPDF
Posts with mentions or reviews of WKHTMLToPDF.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-05.
- Show HN: CLI for generating beautiful PDF for offline reading
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Working with PDFs in Ruby
We’ll start with the WickedPDF gem, which is powered by the wkhtmltopdf command-line library.
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Any good tutorials for working with pdfs in Rust?
The only “sane” way I’ve found to be able to deal with pdfs is through this tool https://wkhtmltopdf.org/
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Batch saving webpages to PDFs? (Sub wiki page deleted)
wget + https://wkhtmltopdf.org/
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Get attributes from another session without loading that session
Thanks for the suggestion! KnpSnappyBundle was my initial way to go as well, but my pages use quite some Javascript (chartJs) to render and I couldn’t get wkhtmltopdf to work with it. As it seems wkhtmltopdf does not support ES6 https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/issues/3596 so I was forced to find another way.
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Open Source Tool to create a PDF structure via coding?
wkhtmltopdf — Generates PDFs from HTML documents.
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Fixed width tables in PDFs
Of the HTML-based pdf-engines pandoc supports, prince would have the best typography, but I don't like recommending Prince because it's proprietary and costs money. (I try to stick to open source when I can.) wkhtmltopdf is the fastest, but uses a pretty old codebase, and doesn't even support paged/print css. weasyprint is a little better in my experience, but still has a ways to go typographically. pagedjs-cli is just a wrapper around headless Chrome/Chromium, and while Chrome has made improvements with regard to typography, Google turns off some of those features (e.g., hyphens) in headless mode, which is annoying.
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Is there a command line program to convert web pages into readable markdown/htm/pdf format? preferably markdown
Concerning pdf there is the well known wkhtmltopdf , but let me say that I love the not so well known percollate
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LaTex alternative/replacement written in Rust?
Did you try wkhtmltopdf and WeasyPrint, by any chance?
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Is there any program that helps you build your own bestiary for homebrew settings?
Since the srd uses standardized links (base/creature type/creature name) you could make a list of urls based on your selected monsters in a spreadsheet, then use a program like https://wkhtmltopdf.org/, https://www.weenysoft.com/free-html-to-pdf-converter.html, or the url conversion feature in Adobe Acrobat Pro if you combine all the urls into an htm for Acrobat to pull from.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Pdfkit and WKHTMLToPDF you can also consider the following projects:
Wicked Pdf - PDF generator (from HTML) plugin for Ruby on Rails
Dompdf - HTML to PDF converter for PHP
puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome
DinkToPdf - C# .NET Core wrapper for wkhtmltopdf library that uses Webkit engine to convert HTML pages to PDF.
Prawn - Fast, Nimble PDF Writer for Ruby
TCPDF - Official clone of PHP library to generate PDF documents and barcodes
CombinePDF - A Pure ruby library to merge PDF files, number pages and maybe more...
mPDF - PHP library generating PDF files from UTF-8 encoded HTML
HexaPDF - Versatile PDF creation and manipulation for Ruby
WeasyPrint - The awesome document factory
Grover - A Ruby gem to transform HTML into PDFs, PNGs or JPEGs using Google Puppeteer/Chromium