react-pdf VS WeasyPrint

Using react-pdf, we crafted a solution that allowed users to manipulate their reports with an impressive degree of flexibility. But, as data grew (imagine trying to cram an entire financial year's worth of invoices, up to 22,000 rows, into one PDF), our solution began to falter, especially on older PCs with limited resources.

https://github.com/diegomura/react-pdf is good as well if you want to use React.

Been using https://github.com/diegomura/react-pdf for this purpose for years

Uses React Native like components and styling.

WYSIWYG: https://react-pdf.org/repl

Thank you. This is certainly possible. The library I'm using for rendering the PDF (https://react-pdf.org/) does support Node.js as well. This is a good point, I suppose a lot of people will have their resumes in GitHub.

So something like this for the signature and you could use react-pdf for the PDF. Although you should consider lazy loading as it’s a big library, or render the PDF on the server to prevent bloating your UI.

Website: https://react-pdf.org/

I'm using the "react-pdf" library to generate a small PDF with some information needed by the user. Its supposed to look like a receipt and it will be printed by a thermal printer that can print basically any PDF if it is configured properly (page size etc). I can generate the PDF without any problems and render it to the screen. But at the moment I need to implement the 'print' feature of this same PDF, but I'm not having success into making this happen. Im using "printJS" library too.

Did you look into KendoReact PDF Generator and React-pdf?

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.

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/

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!

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

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.

For Python there is Weasyprint: you prepare the invoice as an HTML document, and Weasyprint turns it into a PDF

https://weasyprint.org/

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.

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:

You should maybe check out weasyprint. https://weasyprint.org/