I need to generate PDF documents from some data and I also need some templating functionality. I have expirience with npm package pdfkit, but this package not support templates.
It would be nice if I will be able to make HTML or XML templates.
Any recommendations? (Not deprecated)?
Use JS to write HTML Files, put these on a webserver that runs on localhost (or some webserver where you can upload files to). Call Google Chrome in headless mode to convert HTML to PDF:
URL=https://localhost:8000/myfile-created-from-js.html # some HTML file
OUTFILE=myfile-created-from-js.pdf # PDF file
google-chrome --disable-gpu --headless $URL --print-to-pdf # HTML 2 PDF
mv output.pdf $OUTFILE # rename PDF
I think that initially the file will always be called output.pdf, so you have to rename it.
You can start a webserver on localhost with
'python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000 > /tmp/simple-web-server.log 2>&1 &'
This project is a great match for what you want to do.
https://github.com/PDFTron/web-to-pdf
Blog describing the project: https://www.pdftron.com/blog/react/react-to-pdf/
Disclaimer this is from my company, but the web-to-pdf project is GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE and allows commercial use.
https://parall.ax/products/jspdf What about this one? This is also javascript based, and provides templates.
