PDFKit
A JavaScript PDF generation library for Node and the browser (by foliojs)
pdfmake
Client/server side PDF printing in pure JavaScript (by bpampuch)
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| PDFKit | pdfmake | |
|---|---|---|
| 29 | 9 | |
| 9,506 | 11,328 | |
| 1.3% | - | |
| 7.1 | 7.1 | |
| 25 days ago | about 2 months ago | |
| JavaScript | JavaScript | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
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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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
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.
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Is node the right choice for HTML to PDF conversion?
PDFmake or pdf-lib would be the way to go in my opinion.
- pdfmake doesn't work after deploy nextjs app
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Generate a customized PDF
Pdfmake (http://pdfmake.org)
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How do I generate pdf from an ejs template?
Perhaps consider taking your serialized data directly to pdfmake and cut out the middle transformation. The playground (examples on the top tool bar row) are extremely fast and tight.
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How to make Pdf in React, Next js quickly
I have some data, and I'd like to make a PDF file for that data. How can I make a PDF file as a quick way in React. In this post, I will try to do it fast as possible in React using PdfMake library.
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Django and Vue web app for creating and sending pdf invoices
What you will be using to generate the pdf invoices ?, i use PdfMake, and i generate it all on front with Vue2.
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Scale Salesforce Apps Using Microservices on Heroku
So how do we do this? First, the configuration information data gets sent from Salesforce to the Heroku microservice. Heroku is using Node.js and a few libraries/modules to achieve this—specifically, Fastify, PDFmake, and JSforce. One of the beauties of Heroku is the ability to combine all of these libraries to build powerful applications for a variety of use cases. Now some descriptions of each library:
What are some alternatives?
When comparing PDFKit and pdfmake you can also consider the following projects:
jsPDF - Client-side JavaScript PDF generation for everyone.
pdf-lib - Create and modify PDF documents in any JavaScript environment
PDF.js - PDF Reader in JavaScript
Papa Parse - Fast and powerful CSV (delimited text) parser that gracefully handles large files and malformed input
gotenberg - A developer-friendly API for converting numerous document formats into PDF files, and more!
diff2html - Pretty diff to html javascript library (diff2html)
node-android - Run Node.js on Android by rewrite Node.js in Java
jBinary - High-level API for working with binary data.
SheetJS js-xlsx - đź“— SheetJS Spreadsheet Data Toolkit -- New home https://git.sheetjs.com/SheetJS/sheetjs
ecars - Sample application for Lightning Web Components and Salesforce Platform runtime and compute capabilities. Part of the sample gallery. Electric car manufacturer use case. Get inspired and learn best practices.