I want to convert HTML content to pdf. It can be any content i.e. content of a div, table etc.
I have tried jspdf, iText for it but they are not effective.
Among the paid one's pdfcrowd is solving my purpose but I am looking for any open source solution which does not depend third party server.
Please suggest any open source solution to this which can convert html content to pdf effectively(Client Side will be preferable).
In Windows, Mac or Linux, install wkhtmltopdf. wkhtmltopdf is a command line utility to convert HTML to PDF using WebKit. You can download wkhtmltopdf from the linked webpage, or in many Linux distros it can be found in their repositories.
Examples
Convert a remote HTML file to PDF:
wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com google.pdf
Convert a local HTML file to PDF:
wkhtmltopdf example.html example.pdf
wkhtmltopdf usage You can also display wkhtmltopdf help locally by running wkhtmltopdf -H.
You can try htmltopdf for convert HTML content into a pdf. I have used it and it fulfills my all requirements of converting HTML into pdf.
http://www.phpclasses.org/package/2905-PHP-Convert-HTML-to-PDF-using-Web-services.html
You can use TCPDF for converting HTML to PDF . its free and good features. I tried and its working perfectly even you can convert all html content like images ,or custom css into pdf without any problem by using TCPDF classes .
You can download form below link:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcpdf/files/
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Sanjeev Kumar Goswami
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I have a requirement that I need to create a PDF. For me the best way is to do it render html template and create a PDF with any third party lib. I have come across the solution which render HTML with ejs and create pdf with html-pdf. It works fine though but I had a problem with a page break.
There is a popular module pdfkit. But it uses it own concept and procedure to render pdf. For node it does not render html file but for python it does render html template.
Please tell me how can i render html template to pdf using pdfKit and also what is the best way to render html and convert to pdf ?
Thanks
Puppeteer is the best way for converting HTML to the PDF, and also for web scraping.
A short instruction for generating PDF from HTML You can see here
Also, the Chrome DevTools team maintains the library, so it is the best solution.
About the page-break. This issue can be solved in the HTML code. There is a style option for solving the issue.
style="page-break-after:always;"
The problem with using PDF converter libraries available on NPM like pdfkit is that, you gonna have to recreate the page structures again in your html templates to get the desired output.
One of the best approach to rendering html and convert to pdf is by using Puppeteer on NodeJs. Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. It can be used to generate screenshots and PDFs of html pages in your case.
I'm working on a tool "Resume Builder" using Vuejs. Is there any bettter way to generate pdf ( of resume ) from html with css . I have used jsPdf Library but not getting desired outcomes. I want to keep html "a" tag clickable in generated pdf. I have also tried html2canvas.js but in that "a" tag is not clickable due to image in pdf. jsPdf is generating pdf but not applying css.
I recommend you to investigate a bit different approach for generating PDF from HTML just because all the client-side libraries for HTML to PDF generation have lots of problems when generating really complex documents with lots of formatting etc.
The alternative way is to perform the PDF generation itself on the server-side. For example, you could make use of Headless Chrome managed by your backend for turning any HTML into PDF.
We used a very similar approach to implement pdf generation for this free resume builder service. The only downside we faced was that different browsers like Firefox or IE might occasionally display an HTML document a bit different than it's printed out as PDF bu Chrome. Good luck!
You might want to give Pdf Make a try.
PDF Make on Github
It has support for styling and links. But you have to do most of the styling yourself.
I found Kendo UI is the best api for pdf from DOM.
https://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/framework/drawing/drawing-dom
I have SVG images, and lot of text with inline CSS, in an HTML page. I need to export all of them into PDF. Suggest to me proper technology which caters to my need. I am using JavaScript and jQuery as front end and Python as backend.
UPDATE:
I have tried jsPDF, but it is not preserving the CSS styling and I am not able to export images also.
Do you know the wkhtmltopdf command line tools? I was in a project where I also needed to convert a web page to PDF and I used this library (I used PHP as backend) and it worked very well for me.
I hope I have helped :D
If you want to do it server-side, there's a python package for that:
http://weasyprint.org/
Otherwise, you can do it in the browser but you will loose the CSS.
jsPDF appears to have experimental support for converting HTML to a PDF, or you can programmatically populate a PDF document with similar content. SVG is supported via plugin.
Demo:
http://rawgit.com/MrRio/jsPDF/master/
Github:
https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF
I have a html-content with dynamic-css in python class which will be later passed to a js file. I need to download this html-content as pdf format.
I have gone through various html to pdf convertor tools(pdfkit,pdfcrowd,wkhtmltopdf) but none of them is able to render the dynamic css content.
I have even tried using windows.document.documentElement for obtaining html content with dynamic css rendered.
But this did not work.
My question is: can we generate dynamic css seperately on python or download the complete pdf using js?
Thanks in advance
I have used JSPDF to download pdf from html. It is easy to use. It should help you in your case:
JS Fiddle Html to pdf: http://jsfiddle.net/xzz7n/1/
JSPDF Site https://parall.ax/products/jspdf
I need to generate a PDF file from a pagescreen in my HTML5/Javascript project.
I've tried jsPDF but it's too hard to use it and I haven't found anything about creating tables.
Does somebody know something that do a simple screenshot of a webpage and convert it into a PDF file?
I think you could use tools like this one:
http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
I've just found this thread about that:
Website screenshots using PHP