Htmldocs: Typeset and Generate PDFs with HTML/CSS

1. typst

   1 146 39,396 9.8 Rust

   A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.

   

   How does this compare to Typst?[1]

   What I like about Typst is that I can use it completely offline and with my editor of choice. Is this planned for htmldocs too?

   [1] https://typst.app/

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3. WeasyPrint

   2 46 7,655 9.6 Python

   The awesome document factory

   

   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

4. bakso-doc

   3 1 3 8.0 JavaScript

   PDF Generation Micro-Service

   

   Cool service! I like that it’s just HTML/CSS but the front end editor looks quite cool.

   I also just open sourced part of my app that does PDF generation, but it’s completely bare bones.

   I basically wanted a wrapper around the pdf generating part of chromium so that i could generate pdfs on pages within my own app.

   Its here if anyone wants to check it out: https://github.com/awongh/bakso-doc

5. wkhtmltopdf-windows

   4 19 46 10.0

   wkhtmltopdf - Convert html to pdf using webkit (qtwebkit). Windows binaries

   

   wkhtmltopdf[1] uses the QT WebKit renderer. I used it as part of my job hut work-flow with pandoc to get pdf resumes from markdown. It got me a job, so there's that.

   [1] https://wkhtmltopdf.org/

6. flyingsaucer

   5 7 2,087 9.6 Java

   XML/XHTML and CSS 2.1 renderer in pure Java

   

   I've used flying saucer pdf[1] for this in the past, but the missing piece always seems to be a descent WYSIWYG template editor. Either open source or paid.

   Any suggestions on a web solution that allows non-devs to make great templates would be appreciated.

   Historically I've built something simple with Tiny and added a preview button to render, but that super clunky.

   [1] https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer

7. react-pdf

   6 55 15,527 9.2 TypeScript

   📄 Create PDF files using 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

8. gotenberg

   7 56 9,094 9.3 Go

   A developer-friendly API for converting numerous document formats into PDF files, and more!

   

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10. weasyprint-rest

    8 1 11 10.0 Python

    Discontinued The best WeasyPrint container that exists on the web. :fire: :fire:

    

    Nice Idea, looking forward to using its API in my application.

    I've used https://github.com/xpublisher/weasyprint-rest for a many years but now planning to switch from it as it's archived by the maintainer.

    All the best for the future of htmldocs.

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