Ask HN: What is nowadays (opensource) way of converting HTML to PDF?

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WeasyPrint

WeasyPrint is a visual rendering engine for HTML and CSS that can export to PDF.
Pricing:
- Open Source
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iTextPDF

iText offers flexible tools for PDF creation, editing and inspection.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Is this an xy problem? If you have the original document (in Markdown), one possibility would be to use my software, KeenWrite[1], to convert Markdown to XHTML then typeset XHTML to PDF via ConTeXt. See the user manual[2] for an example of a Markdown document typeset in this fashion, along with instructions. If you only have HTML to work with, you can also use Flying Saucer[3], which is what KeenWrite uses to preview Markdown documents as HTML. Flying Saucer uses an open-source version of iText[4] to produce PDF documents. [1]: https://keenwrite.com/ [2]: https://keenwrite.com/docs/user-manual.pdf [3]: https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer [4]: https://itextpdf.com/.

#Office & Productivity #PDF Tools #Word 8 social mentions
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Typst

Focus on your text and let Typst take care of layout and formatting. Join the wait list so you can be part of the beta phase.
Pricing:
- Open Source
If generating PDF dynamically is what you really care about, consider Typst. https://typst.app/.

#Document Management #Writing Tools #Writing 36 social mentions
parall.ax
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jsPDF

Generate professional PDFs easily with jsPDF, the open-source solution for PDF generation. Create event tickets, reports, certificates, and more in minutes with our intuitive interface.
Pricing:
- Open Source
JsPDF is a work of art https://parall.ax/products/jspdf.

#PDF #PDF Tools #PDF Converter 1 social mentions
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Ghostscript

Documentation.
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- Open Source
Ghostscript. Depending on specific needs it may be much more turnkey than Pandoc, which isn’t actually doing much directly with things other than intermediating, iiuc. (LaTex) does the heavy lifting. Ghost script is working with postscript natively and will likely manage idiosyncrasies of web content better. It’s got a decent ecosystem, command line, you can find gui’s if that’s your thing (no judgement, your lifestyle is none of my business). Many other good tools mentioned here as well, but if your asking because you need more, or fine grained (near infinite) control over the pdf composition, there’s nothing OSS I can think of that approaches its capabilities. https://ghostscript.com/.

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Carbone

Automate the creation of your documents using your favorite editor and your JSON data. Carbone generates the document in any format!
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- €29.0 / Monthly (1000 documents)
If you want lots of differently styled templates, template management and editing/styling capabilites in word or excel (ie. You can just ask your customer/employer/.. To make an example document), I can really recommend Carbone [0]. I've been a happy customer for a few years now. Extra advantage is also that it also offers you excel outout generation as well, which is also often a requirement in applications. They have a SaaS offering as well if you'd like. [0]: https://carbone.io/.

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