How do I write a program that generates custom pdfs?

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  • jsPDF

    Client-side JavaScript PDF generation for everyone.

    Did a quick look at shiny. You can use JavaScript so jsPDF would be a great choice.

  • apps-script-samples

    Apps Script samples for Google Workspace products.

    If we're talking about making something really easily for a small data set with minimal programming knowledge and time required, Google Apps Script would probably be a good bet. Similarly, if your organization has Microsoft Office 365 instead of Google Workspace, you might try out their Office Scripts and Power Automate.

  • Appwrite

    Appwrite - The Open Source Firebase alternative introduces iOS support . Appwrite is an open source backend server that helps you build native iOS applications much faster with realtime APIs for authentication, databases, files storage, cloud functions and much more!

  • pdf-combine

    combines pdf files into a single file, extracts pages from a pdf

  • lantern

  • pandoc

    Universal markup converter

    I'd go with this way as well. HTML or LaTex is a lot easier to work with than trying to create a PDF file directly. And there are existing tools around that can convert these formats into PDF, for example in Python: https://pypi.org/project/pdfkit/ or https://pandoc.org/

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