PDFKit
A JavaScript PDF generation library for Node and the browser (by foliojs)
jsPDF
Client-side JavaScript PDF generation for everyone. (by parallax)
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PDFKit | jsPDF | |
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29 | 31 | |
9,493 | 28,314 | |
1.0% | 0.7% | |
7.1 | 0.6 | |
17 days ago | 20 days ago | |
JavaScript | JavaScript | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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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 2023-10-25.
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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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🏆 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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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
- serving pdf from express backend to client
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dynamically generating pdf file with node
You can use PDFKit to generate the file and then save or directly serve the file after generation.
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TCPDF
Sure thing! https://pdfkit.org/
jsPDF
Posts with mentions or reviews of jsPDF.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-25.
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Best HTML to PDF libraries for Node.js
jsPDF is a popular JavaScript PDF generator that allows users to generate PDF files in the web browser dynamically. The library is well-maintained, stable, easy to use, and has rich documentation.
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Seeking Alternative jQuery Plugin for Exporting ASP.NET Web Form HTML Table to Excel and PDF
I haven't had to generate PDF files from the browser, but jsPDF looks promising.
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Bibliotecas NodeJS incríveis que você não tem ideia que existem
🔀 Repositório no GitHub
🔗 Site oficial
- De HTML a PDF
- Najbolji JS library za generiranje PDF dokumenata?
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Google/tracker free PDF markup editor (stylus) for android
Didn't try but there is https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js to read and https://github.com/parallax/jsPDF to write back so I imagine it could all be done in the browser, no app required. I'm not sure if there is already a project that combine both and use the canvas as a sketching support but have a look and if there isn't one I might prototype as it could be interesting for the PineNote.
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What's a good way to deliver printable reports?
If you decide to go with PDF, I highly suggest https://github.com/parallax/jsPDF
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Creating a PDF
Looks like this package is aiming to help with generating PDF files in browser https://github.com/parallax/jsPDF
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How to use jsPDF in react and add styling to it?
jsPDF - main page
What are some alternatives?
When comparing PDFKit and jsPDF you can also consider the following projects:
pdfmake - Client/server side PDF printing in pure JavaScript
PDF.js - PDF Reader in JavaScript
react-pdf - 📄 Create PDF files using React
pdf-lib - Create and modify PDF documents in any JavaScript environment
Dompdf - HTML to PDF converter for PHP
Papa Parse - Fast and powerful CSV (delimited text) parser that gracefully handles large files and malformed input
puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome
FileSaver.js - An HTML5 saveAs() FileSaver implementation
diff2html - Pretty diff to html javascript library (diff2html)
gotenberg - A developer-friendly API for converting numerous document formats into PDF files, and more!