PDFKit
WeasyPrint
PDFKit | WeasyPrint | |
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29 | 43 | |
9,520 | 6,646 | |
0.9% | 1.4% | |
7.0 | 9.5 | |
about 1 month ago | 6 days ago | |
JavaScript | Python | |
MIT License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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PDFKit
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Best HTML to PDF libraries for Node.js
PDFkit is one of the oldest and most well-established PDF libraries in the JavaScript ecosystem; it is still well-maintained, and regularly updated. This library is a popular option for creating and manipulating PDF documents in a server-side environment, typically using Node.js. It allows you to programmatically generate PDF files by defining each page's content, layout, and formatting.
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The 5 Node.js PDF Libraries Every Developer Must Know
pdfkit is a JavaScript PDF lib that allows web developers to create PDF documents programmatically. It provides a simple and intuitive API for generating basic PDFs.
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Feature Request: Download Images into Compiled PDF Option
Resource could be of use: pdfkit, github link.
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π Contest - Kintone Customization Contest 2023
Build a PDF generator using Kintone's REST API and a PDF library like PDFKit or PDFMake
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Best solution for generating pdf documents from templates
https://pdfkit.org/ is pretty powerful, surprised to see no one has mentioned this so far.
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Best approach to generate PDF from dynamic data?
If this is a concern for you, I suggest you look at projects like pdfkit, they allow you to compose the content of the pdf directly, without using another format (html) has an intermediate layer.
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react-pdf
I use pdfkit at work
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What to learn to build this - an interactive tool
Then write a script to export the drag drop. Maybe use a browser function to save the page as a PDF. Or a NPM library using something like https://www.npmjs.com/package/pdfkit
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Building a small ad/website.
Maybe pdfkit
- serving pdf from express backend to client
WeasyPrint
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Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) β A better way to create PDFs
Is there a reason you didn't consider something like Weasyprint?
https://weasyprint.org
I've gone through a number of systems to convert CV's, business cards, and other docs and it hasn't let me down yet.
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CSS for Printing to Paper
You don't _have_ to use a browser. I had very good results with Weasyprint [0]. And there's also PrinceXML [1] if you're willing to pay.
[0]: https://weasyprint.org/
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Show HN: A new open-source library to design PDF using React
Thanks for your answer! I imagined you would be using PrinceXML behind the scenes since that is probably the gold standard in HTML+CSS rendering.
The only open source alternative I know of is WeasyPrint at https://weasyprint.org/. I'm not sure how well it fares against PrinceXML, though.
And thanks for the pointer to Taffy - I didn't know it before!
- 1.5M PDFs in 25 Minutes
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Htmldocs: Typeset and Generate PDFs with HTML/CSS
Flexbox support has been [included][1] since 2018, although my use case was the prototypical one - a single row w/ 3 columns - so YMMV with how it handles more complex layouts.
[1]: https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/pull/579
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How to Simply Generate a PDF From HTML in Symfony With WeasyPrint
Performance is not the strength of WeasyPrint, meaning that heavy HTML files will increase generation time. You should always compress images before attaching them, as they are not compressed by default. Generating a 50-page-long PDF may take up to a minute in extreme cases, although multi-page documents generated on my project take fewer than 2 seconds to generate.
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Show HN: Invoice Dragon β An Open Source App to Create PDF Invoices for Free
For Python there is Weasyprint: you prepare the invoice as an HTML document, and Weasyprint turns it into a PDF
https://weasyprint.org/
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The Gemini protocol seen by this HTTP client person (curl dev)
Well yes, but you can implement HTML+CSS. WeasyPrint did from scratch, and independent implementations of HTML+CSS are considerably more numerous than HTML+CSS+JS.
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Library to convert HTML to pdf in Golang
In a recent project I used https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/ it is written in python, so you will need to use it like so:
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RE: If you had to pick a library from another language (Rust, JS, etc.) that isnβt currently available in Python and have it instantly converted into Python for you to use, what would it be?
You should maybe check out weasyprint. https://weasyprint.org/
What are some alternatives?
jsPDF - Client-side JavaScript PDF generation for everyone.
ReportLab
pdfmake - Client/server side PDF printing in pure JavaScript
PyPDF2 - A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files
pdf-lib - Create and modify PDF documents in any JavaScript environment
WKHTMLToPDF - Convert HTML to PDF using Webkit (QtWebKit)
PDF.js - PDF Reader in JavaScript
QuestPDF - QuestPDF is a modern open-source .NET library for PDF document generation. Offering comprehensive layout engine powered by concise and discoverable C# Fluent API. Easily generate PDF reports, invoices, exports, etc.
gotenberg - A developer-friendly API for converting numerous document formats into PDF files, and more!
PDFMiner - Python PDF Parser (Not actively maintained). Check out pdfminer.six.
node-android - Run Node.js on Android by rewrite Node.js in Java
MathJax - Beautiful and accessible math in all browsers