Htmldocs: Typeset and Generate PDFs with HTML/CSS

• typst

  110 28,218 9.9 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/

• WeasyPrint

  43 6,635 9.4 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

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• bakso-doc

  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

• wkhtmltopdf-windows

  16 45 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/

• flyingsaucer

  6 1,916 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

• react-pdf

  50 14,108 9.0 JavaScript

  📄 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

• gotenberg

  53 6,870 9.1 Go

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

  

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• weasyprint-rest

  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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