Wkhtmltopdf: Command line tools to render HTML into PDF

• WKHTMLToPDF

  56 12,952 4.3 C++

  Discontinued Convert HTML to PDF using Webkit (QtWebKit)

  

• pagedjs

  3 753 4.6 HTML

  Display paginated content in the browser and generate print books using web technology

  

At the company I work for we used chrome headless paired with https://github.com/pagedjs/pagedjs to fill in the gaps and it works very very well.

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• puppeteer

  359 86,832 9.9 TypeScript

  Node.js API for Chrome

  

It might be related on how you include fonts, I have seen a lot of weird behaviors unfortunately with that. Especially this response of an issue was important for my team: https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/issues/422#issuecomme...

Source: working on automatic PDF reporting in my current company.

• resume.md

  3 507 3.2 Python

  Write your resume in Markdown, style it with CSS, output to HTML and PDF

For my use case[0], I found weasyprint easier to work with, it gives better results (in the sense they looked more like what I got when I saved to PDF using a browser), and it's more actively maintained.

But in the end, I switched[1] to "chrome --headless --print-to-pdf-no-header", since it reproduces browser behavior pretty much by definition and, while it's a colossal dependency, it's also trivial for non-technical users to install.

[0] https://github.com/mikepqr/resume.md

• kwkhtmltopdf

  1 17 0.0 Python

  wkhtmltopdf server with transparent drop-in client

  

We use it too, with an api on top of it https://github.com/acsone/kwkhtmltopdf

• handsonscala

  18 648 0.0 TSQL

  Discussion and and code examples for the book Hands-on Scala Programming

  

I tried using wkhtmltopdf for rendering my book https://www.handsonscala.com/ to pdf, but in general I found it pretty buggy and unreliable. Lines of text would get split between pages, some CSS like flexbox didnt render properly, font sizes and page scaling was sometimes off (e.g. a big image on a page would make everything else shrink), etc. In general it "worked", but it didn't work well.

I ended up swapping in Google's Puppeteer library to render my PDFs, and despite needing a bit of plumbing to get my Scala build script talking to the node.js runtime, in the end it worked much better. Things looked the same in puppeteer PDF as they did in the browser, which is something I could never quite achieve with wkhtmltopdf

• HexaPDF

  26 1,184 9.3 Ruby

  Versatile PDF creation and manipulation for Ruby

I use(d) wkhtmltopdf to implement PDF generation of certain pages in a Jekyll site (e.g. of my CV page) but was never really happy with the output since it was very hard to get it to look like a purpose-built PDF document even with a good print stylesheet. One of these days I'd like to try replacing it with a custom Kramdown converter that invokes HexaPDF: https://hexapdf.gettalong.org/

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• athenapdf

  2 2,265 0.0 Go

  Discontinued Drop-in replacement for wkhtmltopdf built on Go, Electron and Docker

  

We use pajed.js in conjunction with Arachnys/AthenaPdf [1] for HTML to PDF conversion, its a pretty nice experience.

1. https://github.com/arachnys/athenapdf

• jsPDF

  31 28,389 0.0 JavaScript

  Client-side JavaScript PDF generation for everyone.

  

I used jsPDF for my ResumeToPDF site and it worked pretty well. Only thing I sort of had pain with was that I had to include SVG icons in-line in the html/javascript and had to convert them to base64 to be included in the PDF. And same thing for the custom fonts - I had to include base64 of the font TTFs to be embedded in the PDF:

https://resumetopdf.com

https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF

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