z3c.rml
An alternative implementation of RML (by zopefoundation)
painless-pdf
Painless PDF generation for node and the browser (by DevLeoko)
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98 | 29 | |
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6.3 | 7.0 | |
9 months ago | about 2 months ago | |
Python | TypeScript | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | 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.
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z3c.rml
Posts with mentions or reviews of z3c.rml.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-06.
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Ask HN: How to generate PDFs from the back end?
We are using z3c.rml (https://github.com/zopefoundation/z3c.rml) based on ReportLab. Layout is written in HTML-like XML and render performance is pretty good.
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Render PDF with Python
There is a free implementation of RML from Zope.
painless-pdf
Posts with mentions or reviews of painless-pdf.
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Ask HN: How to generate PDFs from the back end?
Generating PDFs is a pain with most libraries, especially if the content is dynamic and should span multiple pages.
If you can use NodeJS on your backend, you might want to take a look at my PDF Library: https://github.com/DevLeoko/painless-pdf
What are some alternatives?
When comparing z3c.rml and painless-pdf you can also consider the following projects:
public-apis - A collective list of free APIs (Maintained Version)
pdfgen - Simple application for generating PDFs
WeasyPrint - The awesome document factory
pdfmake-wrapper - Wrapper based on pdfmake library (http://pdfmake.org) to generate PDF documents in an easy and readable way.
apollo-upload-client - A terminating Apollo Link for Apollo Client that fetches a GraphQL multipart request if the GraphQL variables contain files (by default FileList, File, or Blob instances), or else fetches a regular GraphQL POST or GET request (depending on the config and GraphQL operation).