How do I write a program that generates custom pdfs?

• jsPDF

  31 28,354 0.6 JavaScript

  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

  37 4,324 5.6 JavaScript

  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.

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• pdf-combine

  1 0 5.1 C#

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

• lantern

  1 23 0.0 CSS
  

• pandoc

  420 32,312 9.8 Haskell

  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/

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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