40 posts tagged with "pdf generation"

If your Node.js app needs to generate or modify PDFs, pdf-lib is worth a look. It is one of several Node.js PDF libraries, each with different trade-offs. PDF‑lib is a pure JavaScript library for creating and modifying PDF documents. Unlike many alternatives, PDF-lib doesn't rely on native dependencies, making it lightweight and easy to integrate into any Node.js project. This guide covers PDF generation with PDF-lib in Node.js – from basic documents to invoices and forms.

The Portable Document Format – commonly known as PDF – is everywhere: job applications, business proposals, legal contracts, government forms. Since 1993, the format has become the default for sharing documents that need to look the same on every device. But what makes PDF so durable, and why has it stayed relevant for over three decades?

PDFKit is a JavaScript library that generates PDF documents programmatically in Node.js. It works without converting HTML – you build documents from scratch using a canvas-like API for vector graphics, text, images, and tables. This guide covers PDFKit setup, text styling, custom fonts, colors, images, tables, invoice generation, Express.js integration, and document security.

Many server-side applications need to generate PDFs – invoices, reports, statements, certificates. PDFMake is one of the most popular Node.js PDF generation libraries: it works without native dependencies, uses a declarative JSON syntax for document definitions, and runs in both browser and server environments.

This guide covers PDFMake setup in Node.js, document structure, tables, images, watermarks, Express.js integration, and a full invoice example.

Need to save a webpage as a PDF without losing the layout? The PDFBolt – Web to PDF Chrome extension converts any webpage to PDF directly from your browser in one click. Pick the page size, set margins, choose between screen and print view, and download or open the result.

PDF documents preserve formatting across devices, but converting HTML to PDF often produces broken layouts, misplaced page breaks, and missing fonts. This guide covers the CSS print rules, page break controls, and HTML structure patterns that fix those problems.

Building dynamic, data-driven websites means generating HTML from live data. Template engines handle this by combining HTML layouts with variables, loops, and conditionals. This article covers what template engines are, how they work, their benefits, and the most popular options for Node.js, Python, Java, PHP, and Ruby.

This guide walks through building a Python HTML to PDF report using xhtml2pdf, Jinja2 templates, and matplotlib charts. By the end, you will have a working script that reads sales data from a JSON file, renders it into styled HTML, and converts it to a PDF ready for distribution or printing.

PDFKit Python is a wrapper for wkhtmltopdf that converts HTML to PDF using the WebKit rendering engine. This guide covers Python HTML to PDF conversion with PDFKit, building a contract generator that produces multi-page documents with headers, footers, and custom styling. The tutorial uses Jinja2 for templating and walks through the full Python PDF generation workflow step by step.

This guide walks through Python HTML to PDF conversion using three libraries: WeasyPrint, Jinja2, and PyPDF2. Whether you need to generate reports, invoices, or certificates, this approach turns your existing HTML and CSS skills into a Python PDF generation workflow. The tutorial builds a recipe card generator that converts structured JSON data into printable documents.