5 posts tagged with "puppeteer"

Web applications frequently need to generate high-quality PDF documents from HTML content – invoices, reports, certificates, and business documentation. Puppeteer-Ruby is a pure Ruby port of Google's Puppeteer API that gives you direct access to Chrome's rendering engine for Ruby on Rails PDF generation. This guide walks you through implementing HTML to PDF conversion using Puppeteer-Ruby, producing high-quality results with full support for modern CSS and JavaScript.

Modern web applications frequently need to generate professional PDF documents for invoices, reports, contracts, and other business materials. The Grover gem is a widely used Ruby on Rails PDF generator that relies on Google Chrome's headless browser for accurate rendering with full CSS3, Flexbox, and Grid support. This tutorial walks you through Ruby HTML to PDF conversion using Grover's Chrome-based engine integrated with Rails' ERB templating system.

Picking a Node.js PDF generation library isn't straightforward. There are browser-based tools that convert HTML to PDF, programmatic builders that create documents from scratch, and cloud APIs that handle everything remotely. This guide compares the five most downloaded libraries with actual npm numbers and working code examples.

Generating invoice PDFs is a common requirement for web applications – whether for e-commerce, SaaS billing, or financial reporting. Puppeteer, a powerful headless browser automation tool for Node.js, makes it easy to convert HTML into high-quality PDFs. In this guide, we’ll walk you through setting up Puppeteer, designing an invoice with HTML and CSS, and generating a professional PDF.

PDF generation is a core requirement for many web applications – invoices, reports, contracts, certificates. Over the years, various HTML to PDF tools have taken different approaches to the problem. In this post, we look at the evolution of PDF generation solutions – from wkhtmltopdf and PrinceXML (via DocRaptor) to Puppeteer and Playwright – and then walk through a tutorial on using Playwright (Node.js) to generate a sample invoice PDF.