Pdfmake – PDF printing in pure JavaScript
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Pdfmake – PDF printing in pure JavaScript
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Re: Pdfmake – PDF printing in pure JavaScript
#2Just looked at the sample on the playground section of the website. No hyphenation, no ligatures, and overall the output looks ugly (compared to TeX). What is the advantage over simply creating an appropriate LaTeX/ConTeXt document in the background and serving that?
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#3This looks really well done. Any chance that it could emulate the functionality of wkhtmltopdf in the browser (a.k.a. CSS styling, structure from HTML)?
Re: Pdfmake – PDF printing in pure JavaScript
#4Just looked at the sample on the playground section of the website. No hyphenation, no ligatures, and overall the output looks ugly (compared to TeX). What is the advantage over simply creating an appropriate LaTeX/ConTeXt document in the background and serving that?
Agreed on the LaTeX front. The best part is that it's native and cross-platform on the backend, but there also exist libraries to render client-side in JS, though I can't say I've used any of them.
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#5How does it compare to
Mozilla's PDF.js https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/
or
Parallax's jsPDF https://parall.ax/products/jspdf
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#6How does it compare to Mozilla's PDF.js https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/ or Parallax's jsPDF https://parall.ax/products/jspdf
PDF.js is a Portable Document Format (PDF) viewer.
jsPDF prints using:
var doc = new jsPDF();
doc.setFontSize(40);
doc.text(35, 25, "Paranyan loves jsPDF");
doc.addImage(imgData, 'JPEG', 15, 40, 180, 160);
var dd = {
content: [
'First paragraph',
'Another paragraph, this time a little bit longer to make sure, this line will be divided into at least two lines'
]
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#7How does it compare to Mozilla's PDF.js https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/ or Parallax's jsPDF https://parall.ax/products/jspdf
PDF.js is a Portable Document Format (PDF) viewer . jsPDF prints using: var doc = new jsPDF(); doc.setFontSize(40); doc.text(35, 25, "Paranyan loves jsPDF"); doc.addImage(imgData, 'JPEG', 15, 40, 180, 160); Pdfmake on the other hand: var dd = { content: [ 'First paragraph', 'Another paragraph, this time a little bit longer to make sure, this line will be divided into at least two lines' ] }
jsPDF doesn't trim each line like Pdfmake does. Pdfmake however supports new pages, witch jsPDF doesn't. Would be cool if Pdfmake didn't trim the lines!
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#8There's also https://github.com/devongovett/pdfkit, which I've used to bulk-print ticket envelopes for an event. It does support multiple pages, as I had one PDF file per event occurrence (with 50-80 envelopes per).
Re: Pdfmake – PDF printing in pure JavaScript
#9How does it compare to Mozilla's PDF.js https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/ or Parallax's jsPDF https://parall.ax/products/jspdf
PDF.js is a Portable Document Format (PDF) viewer . jsPDF prints using: var doc = new jsPDF(); doc.setFontSize(40); doc.text(35, 25, "Paranyan loves jsPDF"); doc.addImage(imgData, 'JPEG', 15, 40, 180, 160); Pdfmake on the other hand: var dd = { content: [ 'First paragraph', 'Another paragraph, this time a little bit longer to make sure, this line will be divided into at least two lines' ] }
Well, I have used PDF.js and it is great. I think it also has printable option.
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#10Right now I'm using PhantomJS to render an HTML page. It supports styling via CSS, multiple pages, etc etc. What advantages does this have?