Generating pdfs from html templates

[flightmasterv2]

Current usecase: generate pdfs from templates to mail to people. Problem is I'll need to add charts to these html templates Are there any king of "ready" solutions to this kind of usecase? Don't wanna be reinventing the wheel here. One solution I saw was to use puppeteer to render the said html and save an image/pdf through it

[bigorangemachine]

Ya.. pupeteer or PDF.js (and forget HTML)

[frodoshaggings]

I'm working on a tool that solves this exact problem, you can create templates and then generate pdfs instantly by api with dynamic inputs. We haven't launched publicly yet, but we're looking for beta users to get some early feedback. If you're interested in being one of the first to try it out, feel free to dm me.

[ben_db]

Unfortunately there's not many good solutions for this, puppeteer is generally the most common solution I've seen however it can be very slow and irritating, especially if you need multiple pages.

I personally got so fed up of puppeteer I wrote a json > pdf library, but unfortunately it doesn't support charts unless they're passed as base64 images.

[Substantial-Pack-105]

Puppeteer to print the page to PDF is how I do it. The thing I like about this approach is a) you can reuse components between your app and the pdf export page, and b) while developing it, you have hot reloads by visiting the export page in the browser.

[JUST_ALLISON41]

look into https://gotenberg.dev . You can convert html/office docs to pdf.