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OpenPDF
OpenPDF is an open-source Java library for creating, editing, rendering, and encrypting PDF documents, as well as generating PDFs from HTML. It is licensed under the LGPL and MPL.
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iText
[DEPRECATED] Core Java Library + PDF/A, xtra and XML Worker. Only security fixes will be added — please use iText 7
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Open HTML to PDF
An HTML to PDF library for the JVM. Based on Flying Saucer and Apache PDF-BOX 2. With SVG image support. Now also with accessible PDF support (WCAG, Section 508, PDF/UA)!
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echosvg
SVG implementation in the Javaâ„¢ Language, fork of Apache Batik, supporting modern CSS: level 4 selectors, colors, calc, nesting, etc.
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single-file-cli
CLI tool for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file (based on SingleFile)
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Ask HN: What is nowadays (opensource) way of converting HTML to PDF?
Is this an xy problem? If you have the original document (in Markdown), one possibility would be to use my software, KeenWrite[1], to convert Markdown to XHTML then typeset XHTML to PDF via ConTeXt. See the user manual[2] for an example of a Markdown document typeset in this fashion, along with instructions.
If you only have HTML to work with, you can also use Flying Saucer[3], which is what KeenWrite uses to preview Markdown documents as HTML. Flying Saucer uses an open-source version of iText[4] to produce PDF documents.
[1]: https://keenwrite.com/
[2]: https://keenwrite.com/docs/user-manual.pdf
[3]: https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer
[4]: https://itextpdf.com/
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CSS for Printing to Paper
I have been creating print labels with plot/cut lines using css and I used browsers to covert it to PDF. The experience was terrible. While all was perfect on my 1-page proof print, both large browsers messed up the final document (with a few hundred labels on several pages).
Firefox forgot to render images after a few pages. So on some labels the barcodes were not printed.
Chrome looked good at the fist glance. But it turned out that the plot/cut lines (which I created via CSS borders) had been shifted by 1-2mm on _some_ pages. Result was garbage.
I finally switched to https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer which is a high quality HTML/CSS to PDF library. Only drawback is that it only supports CSS 2.1, so some fancy features are not supported like rotating text.
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Htmldocs: Typeset and Generate PDFs with HTML/CSS
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
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is thymleaf still used
Same, we also use it in conjunction with Flying Saucer PDF to produce PDF reports.
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Is Jasper still the best Report Engine?
Personnaly, I'm a big fan of Flying Saucer.
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Is there a Kotlin-first library to create PDFs?
Not Kotlin first, but I use Flying Saucer (LGPL licenced) in Java.
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