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• Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs

  Is there a reason you didn't consider something like Weasyprint? https://weasyprint.org I've gone through a number of systems to convert CV's, business cards, and other docs and it hasn't let me down yet. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• CSS for Printing to Paper

  You don't _have_ to use a browser. I had very good results with Weasyprint [0]. And there's also PrinceXML [1] if you're willing to pay. [0]: https://weasyprint.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Show HN: A new open-source library to design PDF using React

  Thanks for your answer! I imagined you would be using PrinceXML behind the scenes since that is probably the gold standard in HTML+CSS rendering. The only open source alternative I know of is WeasyPrint at https://weasyprint.org/. I'm not sure how well it fares against PrinceXML, though. And thanks for the pointer to Taffy - I didn't know it before! - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Htmldocs: Typeset and Generate PDFs with HTML/CSS

  Some people might be interested in https://weasyprint.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Ask HN: What's the best way to write a book in Markdown?

  I use Weasyprint [1] to generate a PDF from HTML, and I use a static site generator to convert Markdown to HTML. Weasyprint can handle code highlighting e.g. Using Pygments or another static framework, the only downside is it can't execute JS so if you e.g. Want to dynamically generate content to render you need to first pass your HTML through a headless browser, which is also possible though. There's also... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago